Hubble photographed an ancient dwarf galaxy with a supermassive black hole in the center

Galaxy ESO 495-21 is located in the constellation Compass at a distance of about 30 million light years from the Sun. She

belongs to dwarf galaxies with a diameter of about 3 thousand light years, and star formation in it occurs several times more often than in our galaxy.

Researchers believe that in the center of the dwarfThe galaxy may be home to a supermassive black hole, and a tidal tail on its periphery indicates that ESO 495-21 gravitationally interacted with other galaxies in the past.

All of these factors indicate that the galaxyformed in the first few billion years of the Universe. The study of the object will allow astronomers to determine how supermassive black holes formed in the early Universe and how they evolved after.

Earlier, astronomers from the University of Berkeley discovered a dwarf galaxy, which in the past passed along the edge of the Milky Way - as a result of this collision it lost all of its stars.