Active Galaxy M87
A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a spiral-shaped disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87. HST measurements show the disk is rotating so rapidly it contains a massive black hole at its hub.
Credit:
Holland Ford, Space Telescope Science Institute/Johns Hopkins University; Richard Harms, Applied Research Corp.; Zlatan Tsvetanov, Arthur Davidsen, and Gerard Kriss at Johns Hopkins; Ralph Bohlin and GeorgeHartig at Space Telescope Science Institute; Linda Dressel and Ajay K.Kochhar at Applied Research Corp. in Landover, Md.; and Bruce Margon fromthe University of Washington in Seattle NASA/ESA
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9423a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 25 May 1994, 06:00 |
| Size: | 512 x 512 px |
About the Object
| Name: | IRAS 12282+1240, M 87, Messier 87, NGC 4486, Virgo Galaxy |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Galaxy : Component : Central Black Hole • Quasars/AGN/Black Hole Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 55 million light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical H-alpha + Nii |
658 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
