 This galaxy is called Cercinus. Much of the gas in its disk is concentrated in two specific rings, a larger one 1,300 light-years wide and a previously unseen ring 286 light-years wide. Both rings are home to large amounts of gas and dust as well as areas of major starburst activity. At the center of the starburst rings is the supermassive black hole that is accelerating surrounding gas and dust. The black hole and its secretion disk are expelling gas out of the galaxy's disk into its halo. The detailed structure of this gas is seen as a magenta colored streamers extending towards the top of the image. Located near the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy, the Cercinus galaxy is partially hidden by intervening dust along our line of sight. As a result, the galaxy went unnoticed until 1999.