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A picture shows the black hole and the jet of matter emanating from it in false-color shades of yellow to purple.
A picture shows the jet of matter emanating from the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. Zoomed out is a picture of the black hole's accretion disk

R.-S. Lu (SHAO), E. Ros (MPIfR), S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

  • The jets were captured being released from a black hole 6.5 billion times the size of our sun.
  • The image is the first to connect the jets to the edge of the supermassive black hole. 
  • It could help us understand how jets, some of the brightest objects in the galaxy, are created. 

Scientists have captured the first-ever direct image of a supermassive black hole spewing out powerful jets of plasma.

The black hole, located at the center of the M87 galaxy 55 million light-years away, is around 6.5 billion times bigger than our sun.

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Scientists capture first direct image of a supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion…