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Beautiful, sparkling arms swirl outward from a bar slicing t…

Beautiful, sparkling arms swirl outward from a bar slicing through this galaxy’s center in this image captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It is classified as an active galaxy, which means that it hosts an active galactic nucleus – a compact region at a galaxy’s center where material is dragged towards a supermassive black hole. Find out more: http://go.nasa.gov/2CNSgg0