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Supermassive Black hole - Artist view

by

ESO/Novapix

Reference

a-blh01-00036

Date

2019-04-15

This artist’s impression depicts the black hole at the heart of the enormous elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87). This black hole was chosen as the object of paradigm-shifting observations by the Event Horizon Telescope. The superheated material surrounding the black hole is shown, as is the relativistic jet launched by M87’s black hole.