Close-up Look at a Jet near a Black Hole in Galaxy M87 (Hubble WFPC2 View)
esahubble_opo9943c October 27th, 1999
Credit: NASA/ESA and John Biretta (STScI/JHU)
A visible light image of the giant elliptical galaxy M 87, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in February 1998, reveals a brilliant jet of high-speed electrons emitted from the nucleus (diagonal line across image). The jet is produced by a 3-billion-solar-mass black hole.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9943c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9943c
- Subject Category
- C.1.4 C.5.2.1 C.5.4.6
- Subject Name
- M 87, Messier 87, NGC 4486, Virgo Galaxy
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and John Biretta (STScI/JHU)
- Release Date
- 1999-10-27T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9943c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- I, V, B, U
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 450, 300
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 187.703109794, 12.392156369
- Reference Dimension
- 521.0, 281.0
- Reference Pixel
- 260.5, 140.5
- Scale
- -1.26194839609e-05, 1.26194839609e-05
- Rotation
- -0
- 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
- opo9943c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9943c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:55:23+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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