Galaxy NGC 1448 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut in this new image

in this new image

and has expanded and evolved significantly in recent years (an image from 1997 can be seen here

Astronomers have determined that these stars are orbiting a massive black hole that lies at the very center of the galaxy

based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2

Galaxy NGC 1448 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut in this new imageNGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Carnegie Irvine Galaxy Survey in the optical range and NuSTAR in the X ray range. This galaxy contains an example of a supermassive black hole hidden by gas and dust. X ray emissions from NGC 1448, as seen by NuSTAR and Chandra, suggests for the first time that, like IC 3639 in PIA21087, there must be a thick layer of gas and dust hiding the active black