Showing posts with label supersmassive black holes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supersmassive black holes. Show all posts

Saturday, November 30, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope captures amazing view of galactic mashup - YouTube - Space.com - astrophysics/cosmology

Tbe NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has caputred images of Arp 107,a merger between an elliptical and spiral galaxies in the near-infrared and middle-infrared wavelengths.Arp 107 is 465,000,000 light years from Earth,so right next door.*Cosmology is the study of the origin,evo;ution and structures of the universe.*The merger of galaxies results in a burst of new star formation.The supermassive black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy makes it extremely bright because of its accretion disk,an Active Galactic Nucleus.