[SunkenCiv]

[Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA);
Acknowledgment: L. Jenkins (GSFC/U. Leicester)]

[saganite]

Beauty

[blueunicorn6]

Spiral galaxies have bars across their centers? Don’t I know it. I go into a bar and everything starts spinning.

[equaviator]

If the Hubble is tightly focused at galaxy center, light from the most distant edge points should come later than light from the center. But how tight is tight when the Hubble is that far away from the nearest point of its obervation?

[blueunicorn6]

The bright active nucleus houses a supermassive black hole?..............need some more periods here......................still trying to process.....................nope...............wait a minute...........nope..........still don’t get it............a bright black hole..........well..........guess I’ll go watch Spongebob.

[martin_fierro]

Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers.

Then there's

[onedoug]

Seemingly a few open lanes about a third to halfway in. ‘Wonder if anyone’s there.