New Images of Messier 87 s Black Hole Reveal Glowing Ring and Powerful Jet sci.news - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sci.news Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Astronomers have taken the first direct image of a powerful jet blasting out of a black hole. The jet is emerging from the supermassive black hole in the M87 galaxy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Expanding upon the historic first images of black holes, scientists on Wednesday unveiled the first picture showing the violent events unfolding around one of these ravenous cosmic behemoths, including the launching point of a colossal jet of high-energy particles shooting outward into space. | Apr. 26
The supermassive black hole has a mass billions of times that of the sun and is around 55 million light-years from Earth. Scientists used data gathered from more than a dozen telescopes worldwide to compile the picture.