Webb telescope may have just revealed a spiral galaxys startling secret

Scientists have found an unusual neon glow near the center of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy for the first time. 

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, likely means the barred spiral galaxy, sometimes called Messier 83 or M83, has been harboring an active, supermassive black hole in secret. 

The new research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, upends prior thinking about the galaxy.