Dan on Nostr: I was doing some research on the Fireworks Galaxy, since I began imaging it last ...

I was doing some research on the Fireworks Galaxy, since I began imaging it last night. I stumbled on a really interesting pair of Hubble images that I thought was worth sharing.

The left image shows a supergiant star in the Fireworks Galaxy, taken kn 2007. The image on the right shows this same location.. with the star missing! Now named N6946-BH1, this star is believed to have collapsed into a black hole. More info is on the star’s Wikipedia page.

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