M87 Galaxy

The M87 galaxy, also known as Messier 87, is a giant elliptical galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the Virgo Cluster. It’s one of the largest and most massive galaxies in our local universe, containing trillions of stars. At its core lies a supermassive black hole, which is about 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. This black hole produces powerful jets of charged particles that shoot out into space, visible as bright narrow beams. M87 is famous for being the first galaxy whose black hole’s event horizon was directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019.