huge super-massive IR light

• by WedoOx

  I found a huge light next to a galaxy or black hole.
  what is this light? why it is super-massive?

  explain please.

  Posted June 10, 2015 11:25 PM

• by ivywong scientist, admin

  The bright light that you see in the IR next to our source is a star from our own Milky Way. Because of its proximity, the star saturates our IR detectors.
  Does this help?

  Posted June 11, 2015 1:32 AM

• by JeanTate

  While the radio source may not be bright enough to qualify for the #ifrs tag, the host is ~invisible, in both WISE (IR) and SDSS (optical):

  
  
  

  The image in this post was created from sources, and using methods, described in this RGZ Talk post. The center of the image is (172.557, 22.964)

  Posted July 27, 2015 7:35 PM