The Hubble Space Telescope has a picture of the eye of a needle.
The spiral galaxy is referred to as "Needle's Eye", although more officially it is called "NGC" and "Caldwell 62". NASA said May 10 that the nickname is appropriate because the dwarf spiral is a relatively small group of stars compared to our own.
There is a shortage of gas in that part of the galaxy, which means there isn't much material from which new stars can form.
The Hubble Space Telescope has the best images of all time.
Old, faint stars fill the void since star formation has stopped. Scientists still don't know how this strange feature formed, but studies hint at past interactions with another galaxy.
The hole is not the only mystery in this universe.
You can see a few more smaller and distant galaxies beyond the Needle's Eye marker, which is 11 million light-years away. Astronomers are trying to learn about those distant galaxies.
The bright red indicates areas of high density gas and dust, and robust star formation close to the edge of the galaxy, according to NASA. A bright foreground star is in the field of view.
There is an ultraluminous X-ray source in the heart of the galaxy, but it is not clear where it came from.
Are they stellar-mass black holes consuming large amounts of gas? Are they more massive than stellar black holes but smaller than the monster black holes in the centers of most galaxies?
The Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests that the X-rays are coming from an intermediate-mass black hole. There will be more studies needed to determine what is happening.
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