Hubble Settles an Old Debate About Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes

Galaxies with central black holes can take various forms depending on the angle at which astronomers see them. (Credit: NASA)Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. And some of those black holes are actively ejecting huge amounts of high-energy light out into the cosmos.Astronomers divide some of these active galaxies, which otherwise look like normal spirals, into two types, so-called Seyfert 1 and Seyfert 2 galaxies. Seyfert 1 galaxies have distinctive light