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M104 ngc4594 sombrero galaxy hi-res
NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
between May 2003 and June 2003
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0328a/ ([cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/opo0328a.jpg direct link]) http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/28/image/a
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a bright nearby elliptical galaxy. The prominent dust lane and halo of stars and globular clusters give this galaxy its name. Something very energetic is going on in the Sombrero's center, as much X-ray light has been detected from it. This X-ray emission coupled with unusually high central stellar velocities cause many astronomers to speculate that a black hole lies at the Sombrero's center - a black hole a billion times the mass of our Sun.
