This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Active galaxy W2246-0526, illustration. This single galaxy glows in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is an Extremely Luminous Infrared Galaxy (ELIRG), thought to be an obscured quasar with a supermassive black hole at its centre. It is an obscured quasar known as a Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxy or Hot DOG. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, evolving into an unobscured quasar. New observations of this galaxy were made with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. W2246-0526, in the constellation of Aquarius, is seen as it was around billion years ago, in the early Universe. Illustration published in 2016.

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