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Streaming out from the center of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light. In this Hubble telescope image, the blue jet contrasts with the yellow glow from the combined light of billions of unseen stars and the yellow, point-like clusters of stars that make up this galaxy. Lying at the centre of M87, the monstrous black hole has swallowed up matter equal to 2 billion times our Sun's mass. M87 is 50 million light-years from Earth.


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Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.

Date

2004-07-27 (first version); 2007-01-09 (last version)

Author

Original uploader was Dan Gardner at en.wikipedia Later versions were uploaded by Joseph Dwayne, Ylai at en.wikipedia.

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  • 2007-01-09 04:14 Ylai 1222×1276×8 (1794624 bytes) higher resolution version
  • 2004-09-11 21:53 Joseph Dwayne 611×638×8 (42654 bytes) reloading image
  • 2004-07-27 16:46 Dan Gardner 1222×1276×8 (26446 bytes) from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2000/20/ {{PD-USGov}}



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current 10:51, 14 March 2007 1,222×1,276 (1.71 MB) Tevatron ({{Information |Description= Streaming out from the centre of the galaxy M87 like a cosmic searchlight is one of nature's most amazing phenomena, a black-hole-powered jet of electrons and other sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light. I)
13:47, 28 July 2005 1,222×1,276 (1.71 MB) Dbenbenn (1222 x 1276 version, from http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2000/20/images/a/formats/full_jpg.jpg)
20:52, 9 April 2005 611×638 (42 KB) Bebenko (from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2000/20/ {{PD-USGov-NASA}} M87 jet.jpg )
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