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It comes from the same team of over 300 international scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope that has already produced: The first-ever image of a black hole’s event horizon in 2018 (M87).
M87's Black Hole: The black hole in the M87 galaxy is about 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...
M87, located just under 55 million light-years from the Milky Way, was chosen for humanity's first image of the shadow of a supermassive black hole partially because its central black hole is actively ...
That's the source of the blobby light you see in the image of M87*. But a feeding supermassive black hole often exhibits another phenomenon, too: astrophysical jets. Scientists think that these ...