NEED TO EAT LIGHT DUSTING!

These images from the retired Spitzer Space Telescope reveal the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Andromeda galaxy consuming clouds of gas and dust.

Supermassive black holes create enormous light shows as they become extremely hot before swallowing matter, and can sometimes be brighter than an entire galaxy. However, the black hole at the centre of Andromeda, one of our closest galactic neighbours, is ‘quietly’ feeding. This means that there is no big change in the brightness of the light emitted by the black hole, and that it is probably constantly consuming small amounts of matter, rather than a huge chunk of matter.

Launched in 2003 and operated by @NASAJPL, Spitzer has observed the universe in infrared light invisible to the human eye. These different wavelengths reveal both Andromeda's hot light sources like stars and cold structures like dust.

Of course, MSG is among them.

Image description:

A two-slide image of the Andromeda galaxy. The spiral galaxy churns against the darkness of space and is dotted with hundreds of distant stars of different brightness. The branches of the spiral glow orange and red and rotate towards the centre, where a bright blue sphere glows softly.