This campaign of observations used a coronagraph, a system that creates little eclipses by blocking the light of stars. In this case, the coronagraph blocked the light of the supermassive black hole, which weighs a whopping 886 million times the mass of the Sun.

How supermassive black holes form is even more elusive. Astrophysicists believe these invisible giants lurk at the center of virtually all galaxies. Recent Hubble observations have bolstered the theory that they begin in the dusty cores of starburst galaxies, where new stars are rapidly assembled, but scientists are still teasing that out.

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to gain a unique view of a vast black hole that is powering a glowing ‘quasar’.

NASA This Hubble image showcases galaxy NGC 1275 with violent events happening in the heart which scientists suspect is due to the presence of a black hole