Galaxy Zoo Talk

Black Hole

  • Mborny by Mborny

    There is some dark object in this image with gravitational lensing around it and it is suspiciously darker than the surrounding area so could this be a black hole

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  • KWillett by KWillett scientist, admin, translator

    The sizing of this image is off (which is our fault); it should be much more zoomed in on the galaxy at the center so you can better classify it. I don't see anything in this image that looks like gravitational lensing; that would usually look like an arc around a massive galaxy or cluster, and are extremely rare to spot (although we've found a few in Galaxy Zoo).

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