48. SEMNATURA UNEI GAURI NEGRE MASIVE

his colorful ‘zigzag’ is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature of a supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered by Hubble Space Telescope’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). 1997

Credit:

Gary Bower, Richard Green (NOAO), the STIS Instrument Definition Team, and NASA/ESA