34 reactions · 3 comments | An international team led by Chinese astronomers has unveiled a new image of the supermassive black hole at the center of elliptical #galaxy Messier 87, or M87, featuring its accretion disk and the powerful jet of subatomic particles being ejected from the disk, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. | China News 中国新闻网 | Facebook

4.5K views · 174 reactions | Several observatories including the Event Horizon Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and more have captured the M87 black hole and the region surrounding it in multiple wavelengths. NASA’s Chandra team explains. | Space.com | Facebook

149K views · 1K reactions | The M87 galaxy has swallowed an entire medium-sized galaxy. | Cosmoknowledge | Facebook

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