![Galaxy NGC 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This active black hole -shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset- is one of the most obscured known, as it is surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and d Galaxy NGC 1068 can be seen in close-up in this view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This active black hole -shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset- is one of the most obscured known, as it is surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and d](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/gallery/news/prensa1273_2811.jpg?itok=4P5U6-ML)
Invited by Nature Astronomy, Cristina Ramos Almeida, researcher at the IAC, and Claudio Ricci, from the Institute of Astronomy of the Universidad Católica de Chile, publish in this journal a review of the most recent results on the material that obscures active galactic nuclei obtained from infrared and X-ray observations, their respective fields of research.
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