Image of the Day: Spiral Galaxy With a Black Hole 100 Million Xs the Mass of Our Sun

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged this coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.The 'eye' at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. The galaxy, called NGC 1097 and located 50 million light-years away, is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars.

The black hole is huge, about 100 million times the mass of our sun, and is feeding off gas and dust, along with the occasional unlucky star. Our Milky Way's central black hole is tame in comparison, with a mass of a few million suns.

The image below of the central 5,500 light-years wide region of NGC 1097. More than 300 star forming regions - white spots in the image - are distributed along a ring of dust and gas. At the center is a bright central source where the active galactic nucleus and its super-massive black hole are located.

Comments

[Ivar Nielsen]

Why is it that cosmologists and astrophysisists are unable to observe and analyze the most obvious things in space?

Is it because of the Newtonian and Einsteinian mental heritage that blinds them?

- Anybody with a normal eye power and with an average logical mind can se that we are NOT talking of a Galaxy NGC 1097 with a sucking black hole in the middle!

How on Earth can a galaxy arm take a sudden 90 degree turn if it supposedly should come from the outer areas of the galaxy?

It is CLEARLY the other way around with this type of galaxy: Nothing is suched in towards the center, but everything is pushed OUT from the center via a sudden explosion in a already rotating/swirling center of gas and dust.

The suddenly explosion created the bars and out form both ends of the bars, 2 galaxy arms of larger melted spheres of gas and matter is floating out in the galaxy surroundings.

By observing the out-spewed arms, this galaxy must be in a very young stage judging the almost just 1 galaxy rotation since the outgoing explosions. And looking closely, one can even observe that this galaxy also have move a little distance along its rotation plane.

- Now, if our Milky Way galaxy is of the same type as the NGC 1097 Galaxy, the cosmologists also are wrong in assuming a black hole sucking everything in towards the middle of our galaxy.

Again: The quite opposite must be the obvious case regarding our Milky Way galaxy which then is somewaht older than the NGC 1097 compared to the arms of both galaxies.

Conclusion: The cosmologists and astrophysisists have to revalue the mental heritage from Newton and Einstein in order to grasp "the hole thing", and that includes the impossible, speculative and illogical theory of "Big Bang".

Natural Philopher Ivar Nielsen
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[Ivar Nielsen]

By the way:

All ancient cultures knew of the fact that the actual movement in our galaxy is going from within and out.

They Ancient People told this in their stories of Creation with the mythological term of "the expulsion out of Paradise" in the middle of our galaxy where the Treee of Life is standing = from the place in the middle from where all life in our galaxy origin.

[Dan]

Ivar, stick to philosophy. Physics obviously isn't your strong suit. If you think the Big Bang is illogical, then you must not understand it; because it makes absolutely perfect sense. And there are Black Holes at the centers of galaxies. That's what makes them spiral. The entire galaxy orbits it just like the Earth around Sol.

[Klaus Jaritz]

Awesome. Beyond understanding.

[Ivar Nielsen]

@Dan,
I´ve not denied the obvious holes in the galaxies - but I completely refuse that the hole in our own swirling Milky Way galaxy should be the type that draws everrything inwards and away. The opposite is the case.

If the Big Bang should be that logical and therefore easy to explain, then tell me how it started.

[Barrie O'Leary]

Ivar Nielson: the black hole started from a singularity in space some nearly 14 billion years ago. You have heard of singularities -- the 'points' at the centre of all black holes.

That startling galaxy has bent arms because you sare simply looking at a collision of two black holes -- still happening and one that encapsulates both galaxies to form a whole. Isn't the photographic image just amazing to be able to see the thing in three dimensions, almost.

Don't worry, we can all learn something new every single day of each of our lives. And there is no god that we need to be beholden to, either.

[roger]

when we see all this in space, one cannot say that God does not extist and that creation is not a fact. The Bible says, in the biginning God. God created all the space, the objects and the stars and planets. all have a purpose.

the big bang might be accepted, as one cannot imagine the extent of space. God is bigger that all that we know and imagine and the whole creation attests to God's existence. evolution is a myth of the mind and satan, who is against God.

[kannan]

you are right .space is infinite in its expanse where space ends, matter starts. to be there. when matter ends , space begins.matter is finite but space is not. i do not think there is any galaxy or other matter beyond some 300 billion light years. can we figure that ? big bang theory comes to a dead end and a new chapter must begin .the only way we can measure the vastness of space is by studying the gamma ray bursts.if i happen to go to heaven , i will use my heavenly powers to travel out beyond 1000 billion light years , just to see what is there.

[xmarki]

ahhh science, so beautiful, no god required at all!

[Assad]

there r many more weird and strange things out there...u never knw wht u can come across
-Assad
www.astroaviator.com

[Bera Ramazan]

Thanks for an impressive photo-sharing

[Eunice Almogodoro]

Ivar has clearly never heard of fire-hose theory. He also doesn't seem to understand what his own eyes are seeing.

[Eric]

@Ivan,

Actually Ivan, black holes push things away from their centers. You see, as matter approaches the event horizon it accelerates, causing the particles to heat up and release gamma rays and other high energy radiation. This radiation actually pushes the matter surrounding the black hole away from the event horizon, creating the effect you see here. These gamma ray bursts have actually been observed and are an integral part of galaxy formation. If it didn't push the matter outwards, galaxies wouldn't exists as the black holes at their centers would consume everything.

Perhaps you should look into taking a cosmology course at your local community college, or consult Wikipedia before commenting on such things, misinformation is the bane of philosophers!