M87 the first photographed blackhole within a galaxy! 🌌 #space #cosmicexploration

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]You've probably seen this black hole, but not the galaxy it lives in.

[00:00:04]This is M87, >> [music] >> a giant elliptical galaxy over 50 million light years away. But that's not why it became famous.

[00:00:12]At its center [music] sits a supermassive black hole with a mass of about 6.5 billion suns. In 2019, this black hole became the first black [music] hole ever photographed. That glowing orange ring you saw? It was hot gas swirling around the edge of darkness itself.

[00:00:29]And M87 does something wild. Its black hole fires a giant jet of energy thousands of light years into space.

[00:00:36]So, this isn't just a galaxy. It's home to one of the most powerful objects humanity has ever observed.