Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 87  ·  NGC 4486  ·  Virgo Galaxy
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M87 and its relativistic jet, Mau_Bard
M87 and its relativistic jet
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M87 and its relativistic jet

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57Mly away, M87 is hosting the most popular black hole in the sky, portrayed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope, in one of the most astonishing images in the astronomy history (the event horizon has an angular size of 10 millionths of arc-second! - it is like spotting an olive on the moon surface!).

In my backyard image here it is visible a part of the relativistic jet produced by black hole.

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