Messier 87 - Wikipedia
Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars.
Messier 87 - Science@NASA
The elliptical galaxy M87 is the home of several trillion stars, a supermassive black hole and a family of roughly 15,000 globular star clusters. For comparison, our Milky Way galaxy contains …
The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole - NASA
2019年4月25日 · The galaxy M87, imaged here by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, is home to a supermassive black hole that spews two jets of material out into space at nearly the speed of …
First Image of a Black Hole - NASA Science
2019年4月10日 · The supermassive black hole imaged by the EHT is located in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, located about 55 million light years from Earth. This image was captured …
M87 | Black Hole, Distance, & Facts | Britannica
2025年1月3日 · M87, giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo whose nucleus contains a black hole, the first ever to be directly imaged. M87 is the most powerful known source of radio …
New, detailed images of the M87* black hole - MIT Haystack ...
2024年1月18日 · In 2017, the EHT took the first image of a black hole. This object, M87*, is the beating heart of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and lives 55 million light years away from …
Messier 87 Galaxy (M87) Facts - Space Facts
The massive galaxy M87 is the most spectacular example of an elliptical galaxy we can see from Earth. The most fascinating feature of this galaxy is its jet, which is visible in optical light as …
1st black hole ever imaged by humans has twisted magnetic ...
2023年11月9日 · Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope show that the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 has twisted magnetic fields that help matter and light …
M87
A jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light streams from galaxy Messier 87 (M87) in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The blue color of the jet …
M87* One Year Later: Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow
2024年1月18日 · This object, M87*, lies at the heart of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, 55 million light years away from Earth. The image of the black hole revealed a bright circular ring, …