M87* Photograph

M87* Photograph

M87* is a supermassive black hole that sits in the center of Messier 87 galaxy. It has 6.5 billion solar masses and it is larger than our entire solar system. This supermassive black hole was what was photographed in 2019 (or rather the glowing gas around the edge of a menacing shadow).

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