Resembling a swirling witch’s cauldron of glowing vapors, the black-hole-powered core of the Circinus galaxy appears in this image. Much of the gas in the spiral galaxy’s disk is concentrated in two rings.

Resembling a swirling witch’s cauldron of glowing vapors, the black-hole-powered core of the Circinus galaxy appears in this image. Much of the gas in the spiral galaxy’s disk is concentrated in two rings.