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IRAS 19297-0406
The ultraluminous galaxy IRAS 19297-0406 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. An infrared study finds that in about one-third of such galaxies there is a supermassive black hole in the nucleus dominating the energy production.
Credit: NASA, the NICMOS Group (STScI, ESA), and the NICMOS Science Team (University of Arizona)
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