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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Nasa image shows giant ring of black holes created by two interacting galaxies | Mail Online

Arp 147: Nasa image shows giant ring of black holes created by two interacting galaxies | Mail Online: "At first glance this amazing image looks like a ring of jewels in space.

But, somewhat surprisingly, the data actually shows a ring of black holes in Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located 430million light years from Earth.

The composite image was taken from data collated from Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory and its Hubble Space Telescope.

Information gathered by Chandra is shown in pink while optical data from Hubble is red, green and blue."

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