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Answered by Amalia Heidenreich on Thu, Sep 30, 2021 12:49 PM
It portrayed M87*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy, some 17 megaparsecs (55 million light years) away. The researchers constructed the picture by combining radio-frequency signals they had collected from observatories across Earth over two nights in April 2017.It portrayed M87*, the supermassive black hole
supermassive black hole
A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with mass on the order of millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun ( M ☉)… Accretion of interstellar gas onto supermassive black holes is the process responsible for powering active galactic nuclei and quasars.
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at the centre of the M87 galaxy, some 17 megaparsecs (55 million light years) away. The researchers constructed the picture by combining radio-frequency signals they had collected from observatories across Earth over two nights in April 2017.
