斯皮策太空望远镜拍摄到星系零食

NASA-JPL/Caltech; image processing by IPAC/Robert Hurt

This image, released on May 9, 2024, from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows streams of dust flowing toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy. These dust streams can help explain how black holes billions of times the mass of our Sun can satiate their big appetites but remain “quiet” eaters.

Read on to learn how data from Spitzer helped shed light on how some black holes consume gas and dust.

Image Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech

NASA-JPL/Caltech; 由IPAC/Robert Hurt进行影像处理

这张由NASA退役的斯皮策太空望远镜于2024年5月9日发布的图像显示，尘埃流流向仙女星系中心的超大质量黑洞。这些尘埃流有助于解释如何满足数十亿倍于太阳质量的黑洞的巨大食欲，同时保持“安静”的进食方式。

继续阅读了解斯皮策的数据是如何帮助了解一些黑洞如何消耗气体和尘埃。

影像来源: NASA-JPL/Caltech