Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. The blue spiral structure closer to the picture's center indicates normal ultraviolet emission from bright young stars that have recently formed there. Astronomers now hypothesize that the outer glow arises from UV light emitted from the galaxy's active center and reflected to us from clouds of gas and dust . These same gas and dust clouds obscure the active center of this Seyfert galaxy - where an ultramassive black hole is thought to live.
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