Wow. Truly spectacular ... and it looks as if it is sucking everything into it from that photo. What is the lefthand bright blue light? Maybe we are all destined for a big black hole one day?
I am not visiting any galaxy that has a growing black hole and a super nova.
Lovely that someone really listen to my lyric choice - Because it is A and O on my posts. And I let my message come in tunes 
But, I thought You should comment on the Medicine-Chemistry Nobel Prize 
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(back after work and karate to read this posts content)
("Only" 12 million light years away...)
How far away is that supernova? I'm surprised they didn't notice a gamma ray burst...or was it maybe in a jet aimed away from us?
I read not too long ago that the red supergiant Betelgeuse apparently has one of its poles pointed almost directly at us, meaning if it blows we might have a gamma ray burst aimed in our direction. Not a very comforting thought, is it?
I'd not heard of this galaxy before. Thanks for directing my attention to it.
And not actually that far away- still in this cluster of galaxies, I presume?
lol Abigail,
so the theory goes
Though I don't expect we'd be around to see it, and if we are I'd hope that we would have developed means to travel far away before our Sun goes Supernova, or the Milky Way collapses into a black hole.
Funny though if all galaxies have such powerful blackholes, if each and every galaxy has a blackhole to which it is returning, what energy source caused the universe as it is to be?
lol Dr John,
you are travelling on one as we speak
Somehow we (our Solar System) are spinning or rotating round at least one black hole in the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
lol Anna-lys
Pink Floyd is to be listened to,
and there really is no Dark Side to the Moon.
lol Moody Minstrel.
what's 12 billion light years between friends,
as for gamma ray burst, not sure I would like to ne too close to one - just like fireworks on Earth they look more spectacular from a distance, rather than in your face.
lol Crushed,
not really that far way, sort of over the other side of the cosmos or visible universe, - a bit like Australia is down under to us over here in the uk.
//It may not have been noticed by astronomers at the time because it was only visible in the southern hemisphere, which is not as widely monitored as the northern.//
this is the interesting part, i think many more discoveries are to be made since both hemispheres r well covered by now.
Internet astronomy
thank you for the post, needed an astronomy fix for so long.
Oh BILLION, not MILLION...
What a difference a letter makes..
Hi GP,
long time no see.
Will be over to yours to see whar's brewing
lol Crushed,
Freudian slip?
indeed what a difference a letter makes
But as I said what's a few million or even billion light years between friends - either way it would feel like an eternity waiting for a reply, travelling at the speed of light - lol
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