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Lone Blazar
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This image from NASA WISE spacecraft shows a blazar, a voracious supermassive black hole inside a galaxy with a jet that happens to be pointed right toward Earth. Active black holes are often found at the hearts of elliptical galaxies.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLone Blazar. NASA/JPL, 2012-04-12. Public domain. ID: PIA15424.
