NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of swirling spiral galaxy IC 4709, located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Telescopium. The swirling disc may look hazy, but it’s actually filled with stars and dust bands, complete with a faint halo surrounding it.
Its galactic core is so bright due to a gargantuan black hole, 65 million times the mass of our Sun. This disc of gas spirals around and eventually flows into this black hole, thus resulting in the gas crashing together and heating up as it spins. Once such high temperatures are reached, it emits large quantities of electromagnetic radiation, and in this case, including X-rays.
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This image incorporates data from two Hubble surveys of nearby AGNs that were identified by the Swift X-ray/UV telescope, as does the image from last week. Swift will collect new data on these galaxies — with an X-ray telescope, it’s possible to directly see the X-rays from IC 4709’s AGN breaking through the obscuring dust. ESA’s Euclid telescope — currently surveying the dark Universe in optical and infrared light — will also image IC 4709 and other local AGNs,” said the ESA.
