🕳️ Black hole
M87*
The first black hole ever photographed.
- Mass
- 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun
- Distance
- 55 million light-years away
Did you know?
- Its picture, released in 2019, showed a glowing ring around a dark shadow.
- It shoots a jet of particles thousands of light-years long.
More NASA photos of M87*Straight from NASA’s image library, in the app
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