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🪐 In the galaxy M87, astronomers have filmed the shadow of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope, revealing a bright ring of light swirling around darkness. This "event horizon" is the boundary where nothing, not even light, can escape the black hole's gravity, and observing it directly helps scientists test the limits of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. ✨ #blackholes⚡#eventhorizon⚡#M87⚡#nasa⚡#galaxy⚡#stars⚡#astronomy⚡#universe⚡#cosmos⚡#space 👉subscribe Universe Mysteries

🪐 The massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in the Virgo Cluster possesses a jet of energetic plasma that extends for nearly 5,000 light-years from its supermassive black hole. This powerful jet glows fiercely in visible and X-ray light, fueled by material swirling toward the event horizon and launched at nearly the speed of light into intergalactic space. ✨ #M87⚡#blackhole⚡#jet⚡#nasa⚡#galaxy⚡#stars⚡#astronomy⚡#universe⚡#cosmos⚡#space 👉subscribe Universe Mysteries