Welcome to my blog "Mystery of Galaxy". The Event Horizon team released the spectacular image of the black hole at M87. It's also been a little bit of an obsession of mine to really understand exactly what it is we are seeing and what we are not seeing in this image. So let's take a deep look into the abyss, to the very edge of space and time as we know it. M87 blackhole source: Event Horizon Telescope / CC BY For starters, this black hole is located at the center of M87 ,a giant elliptical galaxy about 53 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo . And M87 is one of the largest galaxies in our local universe, and may have a mass as great as 200 times the Milky Way. The dominant feature of this image is a five thousand light-year jet. Jets from super massive black hole Source: ESA/Hubble / CC BY This jet is accelerating away from the black hole at speeds that are a sizable fraction of light. Although the jet appears to be pointing toward ...
The blog is about the Mysteries of Space like History of our solar system, Black holes, Supernovae and etc.