The material that obscures supermassive black holes, the connection with their host galaxies
The material that obscures supermassive black holes, the connection with their host galaxies
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Galaxy NGC 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This active black hole -shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset- is one of the most obscured known, as it is surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and dust that can be characterized using infrared and X-ray observations. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.