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October 4, 1990 12:00 AM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-1990-13

Hubble Space Telescope Probes a Galaxy with an Active Nucleus

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented, detailed view of highly energetic events in the core of a galaxy 30 million light-years away. The observations are a first step in HST’s search for super-massive black holes at the nuclei of active galaxies.

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Credit: NASA, and Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) Investigation Definition Team

Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) Investigation Definition Team: Principal Investigator: Richard Harms (Applied Research Corporation) Team: Richard Allen (UA), Roger Angel (UA), Frank Bartko (SA), Edward Beaver (UCSD), Ralph Bohlin (ST Scl), Margaret Burbidge (UCSD), Arthur Davidsen (JHU), George Hartig (ST Scl), and Bruce Margon (UW)