NGC 4696: Ravenous Supermassive Black Hole Creates A 'Cosmic Oddity'

A team of astronomers have, using the Hubble Space Telescope, captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4696 — a "cosmic oddity" located 150 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. The image provides a glimpse, in unprecedented detail, of how the supermassive black hole in the galaxy's core is creating intricate, thread-like filaments around it.