M87 Jet from Super massive black hole (David Redwine)

M87 Jet from Super massive black hole

The largest Messier object, Messier 87 was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781 and catalogued as a nebula without resolvable stars.

In 1918 Heber Curtis of the Lick Observatory discovered the relativistic jet shooting out of the side of M87, describing it as "a curious straight ray ... apparently connected with the nucleus by a thin line of matter."

In 1947 a strong radio source catalogued as Virgo A was detected and determined to coincide with M87. Between 1947 and 1970 astronomers studying Virgo A and the M87 jet had determined that the jet, and Virgo A were caused by material being ejected from M87. The point of origin was later determined to be the Super Massive Black Hole at the heart of M87, which was designated M87*. Between April 2017 and April 2019 a world-wide team of radio astronomers imaged M87* using very-long baseline interferometry, the first-ever imaging of an actual black hole.

Comparing my photo to: Wiki and [url= https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-87] NASA[/url] , I appear to be detecting pulses A and B within the jet. Pulses I through D are lost in the light of the galaxy, C is either too dim or not resolved from B.

The OSC Club (One Shot Camera)
Images from the EdgeHD Series
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Unique or Unusal Deep Sky Targets
Imaged with APT

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