Image: Messier 105
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Description: Hubble peered into the core of Messier 105 (also known as NGC 3379) and measured the motions of stars swirling around its center. These observations proved that a supermassive black hole resides at the galaxy’s heart. According to recent estimates, this black hole could be up to 200 million times as massive as our Sun.
Title: M105 (37482401952)
Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble/37482401952/; see also https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1997/news-1997-01.html
Author: NASA, ESA, Karl Gebhardt (University of Michigan), and Tod Lauer (NOAO)
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