Star cluster surrounds wayward black hole in cannibal galaxy ESO 243-49 (unlabelled)
esahubble_heic1203b February 15th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (University of Sydney, Australia and University of Leicester, UK)
This spectacular edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, is home to an intermediate-mass black hole that may have been purloined from a cannibalised dwarf galaxy. The black hole, with an estimated mass of 50 million Suns, lies above the galactic plane. This is an unlikely place for such a massive back hole to exist, unless it belonged to a small galaxy that was gravitationally torn apart by ESO 243-49.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1203b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1203b
- Subject Category
- C.3.6.4 C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- ESO 243-49, ESO 243-49 HLX-1
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (University of Sydney, Australia and University of Leicester, UK)
- Release Date
- 2012-02-15T16:45:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1203b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Cyan, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H, I, V, C
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 775, 555, 390
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- -, 740, -, -
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 17.6171296484, -46.0706018179
- Reference Dimension
- 1381.0, 1063.0
- Reference Pixel
- 367.316449405, 667.971762953
- Scale
- -1.101736e-05, 1.101736e-05
- Rotation
- 51.11341876903
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1203b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1203b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-02-09T11:38:38-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
