Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center that is horizontal and rotating in the same direction as the galaxy’s rotation.

But on 18 December 2024, NASA researchers was shocked and announced that they had discovered a galaxy with a twisted black hole that is tilted, or vertical, and rotating in the opposite direction to the galaxy that surprised scientists.

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German astronomer William Herschel discovered the galaxy, called NGC 5084, centuries ago, but NASA has resorted to new techniques to reveal this unusual feature of the twisted black hole. The new technique revealed four large X-ray beams emitted by the galaxy in the data. These jets of plasma extend from the galaxy’s center, two on the horizontal plane of the galaxy and two on the vertical plane, or above and below.

To confirm that this was not a glitch in the data, they started looking at other side of images of the galaxy in more detail, from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).

These observations revealed that the black hole at the center of the galaxy is positioned at a 90-degree angle to the rest of the galaxy, which is also rotating in the opposite direction.