Tag: Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)

• 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…

  Matthew R. Francis

  August 22, 2013

  Astronomy

  black holes, Hubble Space Telescope, M87, radio astronomy, scientific beauty, supermassive black holes, Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)