There are perhaps no mysteries more captivating than black holes. The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is particularly useful at stripping away the layers of mystery that shroud our understanding of these objects. It does this by slicing a target into layers and analyzing the components of each for its chemical components. The graphic above breaks down some of NIRSpec’s observations of the black hole in the topmost galaxy of Stephan’s Quintet, NGC 7319, which helps us understand the molecules that it emits in its outflow. Atomic hydrogen, in blue and yellow, diagram the structure of the outflow, while the molecular hydrogen, in red, trace the outflowing gas and the reservoir of fuel for the black hole. The iron ions, in teal, trace the places where the hot gas is located. For more images of Stephan’s Quintet and Webb’s other released images, visit the link in our bio. #NASAWebb #UnfoldTheUniverse #JWST #STScI #InteractingGalaxies #galaxies #BlackHole Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. ALT-TEXT: Infographic titled “Interacting Galaxies Stephan’s Quintet: Composition of Gas Around Active Black Hole; NIRCam and MIRI Imaging and NIRSpec IFU Spectroscopy.” The infographic shows a color image of a group of galaxies, a zoom-in color image to one of those galaxies, and four separate single-color images of a small portion of the center of the zoomed-in galaxy. Each of the four separate images is labeled with the wavelength of light that the image shows and the name of the atom, molecule, or ion that is emitting the light. From left to right: Atomic Hydrogen 0.656 microns shown in blue. Iron ions 1.64 microns shown in cyan. Atomic Hydrogen 1.87 microns shown in yellow. Molecular Hydrogen 4.7 microns shown in red.