Asupermassive black hole masked by a cloud of cosmic dust was found at the centre of an active galaxy in new images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The galaxy, known as Messier 77 or NGC 1068, is a barred spiral galaxy located about 47 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus. Taken by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in northern Chile, the observations
