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Gorilla Black Hole in the Mist
Target: Mission: Spitzer Space Telescope Spacecraft: Spitzer Space Telescope Instrument: Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS), Very Large Array (VLA) Size: 2099 x 2100 ID#: PIA08001 Added: 2005-08-03
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This false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy (yellow) that houses a quasar, a super-massive black hole circled by a ring, or torus, of gas and dust.
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