Early april, the first ever picture taken of a black hole was taken of the black hole at the center of M87. M87 is located at a distance of 55million ly from earth. It is a very massive galaxy and believed to have a mass of 2700 billion times the mass of our Sun (our galaxy, milky way is estimated to have a mass of 1000 billion solar masses). For fun, I added the picture of the black hole which is estimated to have a mass of 3 to 6 billion solar masses.
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| My picture uploaded in Astrometry.net (credit Astronmetry.net) |
