disk surrounding a probable black hole
A Hubble Space Telescope image shows a disk of gas and dust that probably surrounds and feeds a huge black hole at its center. The enormous disk is some 300 light-years across. It lies at the center of a galaxy in the Virgo cluster. Astronomers think that black holes probably lie at the center of many galaxies.
© Walter Jaffe/Leiden Observatory, Holland Ford/JHU/STScI, and NASA