The Sombrero Galaxy
The following image from the Hubble Telescope is one of the most famous photographs captured since it’s inception. At 29 million light years from Earth, M104 possess a central supermassive black hole, has over 800 billion stars and is 50,000 light years across.
From NASA:
The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a bright nearby spiral galaxy. The prominent dust lane and halo of stars and globular clusters give this galaxy its name. Something very energetic is going on in the Sombrero’s center, as much X-ray light has been detected from it. This X-ray emission coupled with unusually high central stellar velocities cause many astronomers to speculate that a black hole lies at the Sombrero’s center – a black hole a billion times the mass of our Sun.
