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In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope revealed the shadow of a supermassive black hole in the elliptical galaxy M87—the first time such an image had been captured. Astronomers have studied M87 for centuries, in part due to a spectacular jet of high-energy material streaming from its center. This video zooms in on M87 with visible, X-ray, and radio images, ending on the historic image from 2019.
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Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Image credits: NOAO/AURA/NSF; Robert Lupton and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; NASA and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); NASA/CXC/Villanova/J. Neilsen; F. Owen, NRAO, with J. Biretta, STScI; Y.Y. Kovalev, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy; NRAO/R. Craig Walker et al. (2016); EHT Collaboration
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