Compact core of galaxy M87
esahubble_opo9201b January 16th, 1992
Credit: NASA & ESA
Astronomers report today that they have found intriguing evidence that a black hole weighing over 2.6 billion times the mass of the Sun exists at the center of the giant elliptical galaxy M87, based upon images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The images show that stars become strongly concentrated towards the center of M87, as if drawn into the center and held there by the gravitational field of a massive black hole.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9201b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9201b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4 C.5.2.1 C.5.4.9
- Subject Name
- IRAS 12282+1240, M 87, Messier 87, NGC 4486, Virgo Galaxy
- Credits
- NASA & ESA
- Release Date
- 1992-01-16T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9201b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC1
- Color Assignment
- Grayscale
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- I
- Central Wavelength
- 785
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 187.704228996, 12.3919186795
- Reference Dimension
- 2143.0, 1718.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1071.5, 859.0
- Scale
- -3.7888516837e-06, 3.7888516837e-06
- Rotation
- 151.38000000000002
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9201b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9201b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:35:26+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
