Elliptical · Brightest

Messier 87 (M87)

A supergiant elliptical galaxy at the centre of the Virgo Cluster. Its supermassive black hole M87* — 6.5 billion solar masses — was the first black hole ever photographed directly (Event Horizon Telescope, April 2019). Its relativistic jet

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