![]() ![]() The gravity is so strong because matter (the mass) has been squeezed into a tiny space. What is a Black Hole?Ī black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that – within a certain distance of it – nothing can escape, not even light.īlack holes are thought to result from the collapse of very massive stars at the ends of their evolution. The black hole is outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon. Keep in mind, M87’s black hole is between about 3 and 7 billion times the mass of the Sun, or about 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A. (There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy - the Milky Way.) Astronomers using NASAs Hubble Space Telescope have found seemingly conclusive evidence for a massive black hole in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy. Using the Event Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained an image of the black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. The polarizationi is produced by the powerful magnetic field surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of elliptical galaxy M87. The short linear feature near the center of the image is a jet produced by the black hole. In 2019, scientists revealed the very first image of a supermassive black hole, one that was located at the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87). ![]() This image was captured by FORS2 on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The supermassive black hole imaged by the EHT is located in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, located about 55 million light years from Earth. ![]()
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