Black Hole discovery could change scientific idea of Spiral Galaxies

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Prof. Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley and Dr. Luis Ho of the Carnegie Observatories have announced that a Massive Black Hole has been found which could change the scientific idea of spiral gallaxies.
The Gallaxy known as NGC 4395 is a flat pure-disk galaxy about 11 million light-years away in the Northern Hemisphere constellation of Canes Venatici. The discovery suggests that other pure-disk galaxies, thought to be devoid of supermassive black holes, may indeed have one.


Further Reading:
1. ABC Space article on the discovery.
2. Another article by Astronomy.com, titled Black Hole Breaks New Galactic Ground.
3. A photo and press release from July 1993 on the NGC 4395 discovery that support theories that active galaxies are fueled by a massive black holes at the center.
4. Todd Hargis eyepiece impression of NGC4395 at PBase.com