Chandra Release - May 24, 2016

Visual Description: GOODS-S 29323

The main panel of this graphic contains an artist's illustration with two small X-ray and optical image insets in the bottom half of GOODS-S 29323. The dominant colors in this illustration are blue, orange and red with a shape that resembles a doughnut or torus surrounded by a cotton ball of puffiness. This artist's illustration depicts a possible "seed" for the formation of a supermassive black hole, that is an object that contains millions or even billions of times the mass of the Sun. A gas cloud is shown as wispy blue material, while an orange and red disk is showing material being funneled toward the growing black hole through its gravitational pull. The inset boxes below show data from the Hubble Space Telescope (right) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (left) of one of the objects described above. The Hubble image shows the faint, distant galaxy at the center of the image with dots of light around it, all in orange. The Chandra image shows X-ray emission from material falling onto the black hole in the same galaxy in blue.