Tag: M87
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Destruction and beauty in a distant galaxy
The elliptical galaxy M87 is one of the largest in our local Universe, and it harbors a correspondingly massive black hole at its heart. Because of its relative closeness (“only” 54 million light-years distant) and low gas content to obscure its center, M87 is a wonderful natural laboratory for studying supermassive black holes. That its…
Galileo's Pendulum 