Actively growing supermassive black hole

This image shows optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope in red, green, and blue; X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple; and radio data from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array in yellow. A compact X-ray source at the center of the galaxy coincides with a radio source, giving evidence of an actively growing supermassive black hole with a mass of about 1 million times that of the sun.

The combined observations from multiple telescopes of Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy located about 30 million light-years from Earth, have provided astronomers with a detailed look at how galaxy and black hole formation may have occurred in the early universe.