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They both have a supermassive black hole at the center! This spiral galaxy is called M91 and lies approximately 55 million light-years from Earth. The supermassive black hole at the center of this galaxy weighs about 9.6 to 38 millions times as much as our Sun. Credit: NASAHubble, europeanspaceagency, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team ALT TEXT: This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a spiral galaxy called M91 against a field of stars. The arms of the spiral reach down on the left and up on the right. The colors are pink and purple along the outside. In the inside of the spiral, the colors are orange and white. There is a bright white dot in the middle.