Wide-field view of the region of the sky hosting NGC 7727
eso_eso2117d November 30th, 2021
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
This image from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) shows the region of the sky around NGC 7727, a galaxy located 89 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy is the bright spot in the centre. NGC 7727 is home to the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth found to date. It is also the pair with the smallest separation between two supermassive black holes — observed to be just 1600 light-years apart in the sky.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2117d/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- ID
- eso2117d
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.10
- Subject Name
- NGC 7727
- Credits
- ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin
- Release Date
- 2021-11-30T14:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2117d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey, Digitized Sky Survey
- Instrument
- None, None
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Cyan
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R
- Central Wavelength
- 825, 649
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 354.976208133, -12.2865906426
- Reference Dimension
- 15663.0, 15100.0
- Reference Pixel
- 7831.5, 7550.0
- Scale
- -0.000279664177425, 0.000279664177425
- Rotation
- -0.16000000000000003
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- https://www.eso.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso2117d
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso2117d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-11-16T11:42:14+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
