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13K views · 89 reactions | Take a look at the first-ever image of a black hole, from the galaxy Messier 87. wkrg.com/1913955477?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_WKRG | WKRG | Facebook

🌌 The giant elliptical galaxy M87 hosts one of the most powerful objects in the universe — a supermassive black hole nearly 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope gave us the very first direct image of this cosmic titan, revealing the glowing ring of matter spiraling into the event horizon. Even more astonishing, M87* unleashes a relativistic jet extending over 5,000 light-years, carrying energy across intergalactic space. This remarkable discovery not only

149K views · 1K reactions | The M87 galaxy has swallowed an entire medium-sized galaxy. | Cosmoknowledge | Facebook

193K views · 4.9K reactions | How large is the black hole at the centre of M87? • Zoom In on Galaxy M87 22.5.2020 • This movie zooms into galaxy M87 using real visible light, X-ray and radio pictures of the galaxy, its jet of high-speed particles, and the shadow of its central black hole. • Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Chris Smith (USRA): Lead Producer. Lead Animator Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park): Lead Science Writer | Astronomy Nation | Facebook

Our latest Picture of the Week takes a trip into Messier 82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, which is home to brilliant stars shaded by clouds. This is a starburst galaxy – it’s forming stars 10 times faster than the Milky Way! Its intense starburst has created ‘super star clusters’ containing hundreds of thousands of stars, more luminous than a typical star cluster. Read more here: https://ow.ly/U4K050WXTS6 📷 ESA - European Space Agency / Hubble Space Telescope & NASA - National Aeronautics an

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