Hubble telescope looks deep into the Needle's Eye in this dwarf spiral galaxy photo - Space.com

There's a mysterious X-ray source and other unknowns in this Hubble telescope photo of the Needle's Eye galaxy.

A fresh image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a deep view of the eye of a galactic needle!

NASA said May 10 the nickname is appropriate given this galaxy is a dwarf spiral, making it a relatively small group of stars compared to our own Milky Way.

The Hubble Space Telescope image portrays a hole on the other side of the galaxy, which NASA said puzzles astronomers.

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"Bright red indicates areas of high-density gas and dust, and robust star formation rather close to the edge of the galaxy," NASA said.

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Or are they long-sought 'intermediate-mass' black holes, dozens of times more massive than their stellar counterparts but smaller than the monster black holes in the centers of most galaxies?" NASA asked.

Independent studies of the galaxy using other forms of light, such as X-rays with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, suggest the X-rays are coming from an intermediate-mass black hole's disk.