HUBBLE FINDS MYSTERIOUS DISK OF BLUE STARS AROUND BLACK HOLE (STScI-PR05-26)

FOR RELEASE: September 20, 2005

Dolores Beasley
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

Susan Hendrix
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-7745)

Donna Weaver
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
(Phone: 410/338-4493)

Lars Lindberg Christensen
Hubble European Space Agency Information Center, Garching, Germany
(Phone: 011/49-89-320-06-306)

Rebecca Johnson
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tx.
(Phone: 512/475-6763)

Doug Isbell
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Ariz.
(Phone: 520-318-8214)

PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR05-26

HUBBLE FINDS MYSTERIOUS DISK OF BLUE STARS AROUND BLACK HOLE

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified the
source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole
in our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). The strange light has puzzled
astronomers for more than a decade.

For imagery and additional information about the research on the
Internet, visit:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/26
http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/full
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0512.html
http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/...2005/0920.html

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:
www.nasa.gov/home/

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