Unidentified celestial object spotted by Hubble telescope.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of Z 229-15, a celestial object that defies classification. It appears to be a spiral galaxy with two spiraling arms of stars emanating from a bright core, but it is also an active galactic nucleus (AGN) containing a supermassive black hole at its core. Z 229-15's AGN is also a quasar, a specific subtype of AGN, and it is a Seyfert galaxy with visible stars. It is located 390 million light-years away from Earth and is "Everything, in one place, all at once," according to the European Space Agency.
Topics:science#active-galactic-nucleus#astronomy#hubble-space-telescope#quasar#seyfert-galaxy#z-229-15
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