The story for kids
This is M87, a giant ball of stars. Its black hole was the very first one that people managed to take a picture of. Do you see the blue beam shooting out of it?
Facts
- It looks like a giant ball of stars and has no spiral arms.
- Its black hole was the first ever to be “photographed”, in 2019.
- A long blue jet of light and matter shoots out of the black hole.
- About 12,000 star clusters circle around it.
Numbers
- Type
- Elliptical
- Distance
- ~54 million light-years
- Black hole
- 6.5 billion Suns