The powerful emission comes from the galaxy M87, 53 million light years away and whose central black hole was photographed in 2019.
Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster, a gigantic structure composed of nearly 2,000 individual galaxies and one of the largest known galactic clusters in the Universe. At 53 million years…
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