Subject: AGZ00025u3

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• by williamaskew

  The center of this spiral seems to be missing.

  Posted September 23, 2012 2:44 PM

• by tomangseesing

  think its a dark dust cloud

  Posted September 23, 2012 2:50 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  merger ?

  Posted September 23, 2012 2:55 PM

• by williamaskew

  I thought a dust cloud but it seems an odd place for that. Unless the dust cloud isnt anywhere close it should be flung to the outer edges.

  Posted September 23, 2012 3:01 PM

• by tomangseesing

  possibly a foreground object, then?

  Posted September 23, 2012 3:31 PM

• by PDXDave

  #disturbed #spiral – The disc is there - it is off center, possibly due to a merger or other disturbance.

  Posted September 23, 2012 3:45 PM

• by klmasters scientist, admin

  Very wierd - just a very disturbed disc galaxy I think.

  Posted September 24, 2012 3:20 PM

• by Dean_Fielding

  is it a possibility that it is a very large black hole? judging by the sprials the dark area appears to be central to the galaxy?

  Posted September 24, 2012 7:04 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  I think it is safe to say that that is definitely not a black hole.

  Posted September 24, 2012 7:11 PM

• by TheVespertine

  Dark matter would be more probable than a black hole.

  Posted September 24, 2012 7:13 PM

• by vrooje admin, scientist

  Not a BH or dark matter. I agree with Karen: just a very disturbed galaxy, maybe even one that just looks like a disk in projection.

  Posted September 25, 2012 5:40 PM

• by lostlens

  #Spiral #bar SBc Sc neither redshift nor kinetics polar rings #overlap & 3 stars retrorotation ?

  Posted May 11, 2014 8:47 PM

• by finleyg

  #no center what are the spiral arms spiralling around?

  Posted October 4, 2014 8:18 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  weird, nucleus is off-center

  Posted October 4, 2014 9:01 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  stars in a galaxy orbit around all the mass, not the nucleus

  Posted October 4, 2014 9:07 PM