Zooming in on the Black Hole and Jet of Galaxy Messier 87 | ESO

Zooming in on the Black Hole and Jet of Galaxy Messier 87 | ESO

This zoom video starts with a view of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescopes in Chile and zooms in on the heart of the M87 galaxy, showing successively more detailed observations. The final image shows the shadow of the black hole and a powerful jet expelled from it, together for the first time in the same image. The observations were obtained with telescopes from the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA), ALMA, of which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, and the Greenland Telescope.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., R. Lu and E. Ros (GMVA), S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Duration: 54 seconds

Release Date: April 26, 2023

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