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M84 fills most of the right side of the image. The galaxy appears as a bright,-white, hazy ball against a black background dotted with other galaxies. The galaxy's core is bright-white, transitioning to hazy, diffuse white toward the galaxy's outer edges. Bands of rusty-red dust stretch across the galaxy's core.

Hubble Images M84

M84 glows softly with the light of mostly older stars, typical of elliptical galaxies. The galaxy’s bright central core -- home to a supermassive black hole -- and its warped dust lanes are distinctive even with this wider frame of view.

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