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Elliptical galaxy M60 in Virgo

by

NASA/CXC/Novapix

Reference

a-gax46-49002

Date

2008-07-26

Elliptical galaxy M60 (NGC 4649) located about 51 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster of galaxies. This image is a composite of X-ray image (in purple) taken by Chandra space telescope and optical image (blue) taken by Hubble space telescope. NGC 4649 contains one of the biggest black hole of our local universe.