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The vast abyss lies 47 million light years from Earth - shrouded by a ring of cosmic dust. Incredible jets of energy fuel the spectacular city of stars, called Messier 77. Known as a Type II Seyfert galaxy, it is particularly bright at infrared wavelengths. The black hole, formed by the collapse of a giant

Black holes can be hidden by energy sources called active galactic nuclei.

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WASHINGTON, Feb 17 — Observations showing a roughly donut-shaped cloud of cosmic dust and gas shrouding a huge black hole at the heart of a galaxy similar in size to our Milky Way are providing scientists with new clarity about the universe’s most energetic objects. Scientists on Wednesday said...

Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects possessing gravitational pulls so powerful even light cannot escape.

Observations showing a roughly donut-shaped cloud of cosmic dust and gas shrouding a huge black hole at the heart of a galaxy similar in size to our Milky Way are providing scientists with new clarity about the Universe's most energetic objects.

The latest observations support a "unified model" of active galactic nuclei, which holds that all such objects are the same but appear to have different properties when seen from Earth.