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      M87
      Wallpaper author:
      Pedro Sánchez

      25 Mar 2026

      M87

      At the center of M87 lies a supermassive black hole with a mass of several billion solar masses. The first image of the black hole, which was made public on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, was taken by the so-called Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight telescopes.

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      NGC 4486

      5 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD

      M87