The Whirlpool Galaxy
The Whirlpool galaxy is the most photographed galaxy by amateur & professional astronomers and can be viewed by small & large telescopes. The galaxy has been studied in a range of wavelengths. The picture clearly shows the matter & antimatter spiral arms.
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The Hubble image on the left shows
tje visible starlight as well as light from the
emission of glowing hydrogen & anti-hydrogen, which is associated with the most
luminous young stars in the spiral arms.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is helping researchers view in unprecedented detail the matter & antimatter spiral arms and dust clouds. The matter & antimatter black holes in the center of the galaxy are the birth sites of massive luminous stars. |
The galaxy is an intricate structure. Along the spiral arms, dust "spurs" are seen branching out almost perpendicular to the main spiral arms. The regularity & large number of these features suggests to astronomers that previous models of "two-arm" spiral galaxies may need to be revisited. The image reveals a dust disk in the nucleus with matter & antimatter black holes.