# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DC9g-c-vPoR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25197250-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/11811aeb84.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-11-29T16:01:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Trying to avoid getting drawn into holiday shopping? Zoom into another galaxy with us (and NASAUniverse) instead!
 
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.
 
This #BlackHoleFriday, visit the link in our bio to get up to speed on some black hole basics!
 
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
 
Video description is in the comments.
 
#NASA #Universe #BlackHole #BlackHoles #GalaxyM87 #EventHorizonTelescope #ZoomIn

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blackholes, galaxym87, nasa, blackholefriday, universe, zoomin, eventhorizontelescope, blackhole

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