A glowing galaxy not far from the Milky Way has been harboring a strange, puzzling secret at its core.
In the center of NGC 5,084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy revolves has been discovered tipped over on its side, with its rotational axis parallel to the galactic plane.
It’s a bit like the Uranus of black holes, and astronomers are uncertain how it could have gotten that way – especially since the evidence suggests that it wasn’t always oriented as it is in our current observations.
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