The Sombrero Galaxy -Caps a Massive Black Hole (Photo)


	The Sombrero Galaxy -Caps a Massive Black Hole (Photo)

Mohir

9-14-2009 11:43 AM

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9-14-2009 2:44 PM

lollipop10

what a shot.

9-15-2009 9:01 AM

chestnut501

I think this is the most photographic galaxy. It's always beautiful.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/05335c2c-54ef-4cc0-9c62-16f12ed2838d/BEEB7A86-27DE-465D-848A-51AC46B7AD9C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/image-of-the-day-the-sombrero-galaxy.html" href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/image-of-the-day-the-sombrero-galaxy.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailygalaxy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/image-of-the-day-the-sombrero-galaxy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailygalaxy.com/img/CE730824-2481-43AE-AAD5-62F807D237CB" alt="The Sombrero Galaxy - M104" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/image-of-the-day-the-sombrero-galaxy.html"><SPAN>The awesome Sombrero Galaxy M104 discovered in May 1781 by Pierre Méchain is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. In the 1990s, a research team, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, discovered that a supermassive black hole with a mass 1 billion times the mass of the Sun is present at the center of the galaxy's large bulge. This is among the most massive black holes measured in any nearby galaxies.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/09/image-of-the-day-the-sombrero-galaxy.html"><P>Scientists have long suspected that massive balck holes existed at the centers of most galaxies, beginning with <A href="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/03/galaxies_are_th.html" linkindex="11" tooltip="linkalert-tip">Sir Martin Rees</A> in 1974. But the mystery has deepened. For a brilliant essay on that mystery <A href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/21feb_mwbh.htm" linkindex="12">click here</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BEEB7A86-27DE-465D-848A-51AC46B7AD9C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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