This Hubble Space Telescope image, released yesterday, shows two galaxies roaring toward one another at more than 6 million mph (9.7 million kilometers per hour). … Behind this spiral is a giant and obvious elliptical galaxy, seen face on (as though looking directly down at the dinner plate). It has a faint spiral structure at its center. The elliptical galaxy is called NGC 1275. It is about 235 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The collision, in progress, causes gas and dust to swirl toward the center of NGC 1275, which likely harbors a supermassive black hole at its center.