"Hubble Captures Stunning Spiral Galaxy with Black Hole Heart"

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of ESO 420-G013, a rare face-on spiral galaxy with a perfectly round disk resembling a baseball, located 50 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. This galaxy is a Seyfert galaxy with an extremely bright, active galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole, visible due to its distinct structure. The image provides insight into the formation of new stars and the behavior of the black hole, and was captured as part of research on luminous infrared galaxies.