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English: A radio image of Messier 87 (M87), a giant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster by the Very Large Array (VLA), and an image of the center section by a Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) consisting of antennas in the US, Germany, Italy, Finland, Sweden and Spain. The jet of particles is suspected to be powered by a black hole in the center of the galaxy.


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Credit: NASA, National Radio Astronomy Observatory/National Science Foundation, John Biretta (STScI/JHU), and Associated Universities, Inc.
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A radio image of messier 87( M87 )

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