Tag Archive for 'Megamaser'

An artist’s concept of Messier 77, featuring its powerful black hole and accretion disk, and never before seen polarization in water masers outside of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NSF / AUI / NRAO / S. Dagnello.

Astronomers Spot Magnetic Filaments in Accretion Disk around Messier 77’s Central Black Hole

Dec 11, 2024 by News Staff

Messier 77 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. An artist’s concept of Messier 77,...

The three-color optical image of the host galaxy of the LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1 hydroxyl megamaser, taken from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope. Image credit: Glowacki et al., arXiv: 2204.02523.

MeerKAT Discovers Farthest Hydroxyl Megamaser to Date

Apr 8, 2022 by News Staff

LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1 is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected. The three-color optical image of the host galaxy of the LADUMA J033046.20-275518.1...

This image shows the Sb-type spiral galaxy SDSS J043703.67+245606.8. Image credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Detected in Distant Spiral Galaxy

Mar 12, 2021 by News Staff

Using the Arecibo and Gemini observatories, astronomers have detected a mobile supermassive black hole in a galaxy called SDSS J043703.67+245606.8 (hereafter...

This image, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the megamaser galaxy UGC 6093. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Spots Megamaser Galaxy: UGC 6093

Jan 1, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy UGC 6093. This image, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the megamaser...

The two galaxies shown here, imaged by Hubble, are named NGC 5765A (the upper, red-tinted one) and NGC 5765B (the lower, blue-tinted one). Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Peculiar Galaxy Pair: NGC 5765

Aug 28, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a remarkable new image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 5765. The two galaxies shown here,...

This image shows the megamaser galaxy LEDA 58817, which lies in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 370 million light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Spots Cosmic Megamaser

Dec 26, 2016 by News Staff

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the megamaser galaxy LEDA 58817. This image shows the megamaser galaxy...