Chandra Release - June 18, 2018

Visual Description: J2150

The image shows the galaxy named 6dFGS gJ215022.2-055059 in data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (colored in yellow), with an X-ray source inferred to contain an intermediate black hole detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (colored in purple) on the outskirts. The image looks fuzzy, almost pointillistic, with a large and bright pale yellow object in the center surrounded by smaller objects (mostly distant spiral and other types of galaxies). The purple dot is around 7 o'clock, near the bottom.