Messier 87 is a super giant galaxy 53 million light years from Earth. At the galaxy's heart is a massive black hole. Astronomers were able to generate an image of light waves bending around the M87 black hole. Take the tour from Earth to the M87 black hole.
This zoom video starts with a view of the ALMA telescope array in Chile and zooms in on the heart of M87, showing successively more detailed observations and culminating in the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole’s silhouette. --- Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL)
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration. Music: Niklas Falcke
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