NASA’s Webb telescope captured the Black Eye Galaxy in unprecedented detail; its opposing gas streams reveal a violent cosmic past
- At first glance, Messier 64 looks like a classic spiral galaxy.
- Its bright centre is wrapped in sweeping arms, while a broad, dark band of dust cuts across one side of its nucleus, giving it the distinctive appearance that earned it the nickname Black Eye Galaxy.
- But beneath that familiar spiral shape lies something much stranger.
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- At first glance, Messier 64 looks like a classic spiral galaxy.
- Its bright centre is wrapped in sweeping arms, while a broad, dark band of dust cuts across one side of its nucleus, giving it the distinctive appearance that earned it the nickname Black Eye Galaxy.
- But beneath that familiar spiral shape lies something much stranger.
Sources: Times of India