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dust disk around black hole in NGC 4261

An accretion disk that might be producing planets around a young star named HD 141569A, in an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The star lies some 320 light-years from Earth. The photograph has been modified to simulate what the disk would look like if viewed from above, and false colours were added to better show the disk's structure. To reveal the disk, the star's light was blocked out, so a black central region appears in place of the star. A nearby double-star system appears at upper left.

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Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of four protoplanetary disks around young stars in the Orion Nebula.

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Uncover insight into the black hole

Uncover insight into the black hole

Black holes are formed when massive stars die. The intense gravitational force that...

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dust disk around black hole in NGC 4261

dust disk around black hole in NGC 4261

Hubble Space Telescope image of an 800-light-year-wide spiral-shaped disk of dust...

L. Ferrarese (Johns Hopkins University) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

An accretion disk that might be producing planets around a young star named HD 141569A, in an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The star lies some 320 light-years from Earth. The photograph has been modified to simulate what the disk would look like if viewed from above, and false colours were added to better show the disk's structure. To reveal the disk, the star's light was blocked out, so a black central region appears in place of the star. A nearby double-star system appears at upper left.

An accretion disk that might be producing planets around a young star named HD 141569A,...

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Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of four protoplanetary disks around young stars in the Orion Nebula.

Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of four protoplanetary disks around...

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