Black Hole
A supermassive black hole in galaxy M87, the first black hole ever directly photographed, in 2019.
| Type | Black Hole |
|---|---|
| Black hole type | Supermassive |
| Distance from Earth | 53,000,000 ly |
| Diameter | 38,000,000,000 km |
| Mass | 1.30 × 10^40 kg |
| Apparent magnitude | 9.59 |
| Redshift | 0.00436 |
| Hemisphere | Northern |
| Discovered | 2019 |
Its mass is 6,535,947,712 times the mass of the Sun.
The light reaching us from M87* tonight left it around 53,000,000 years ago.
Its light arrives redshifted by z = 0.00436, stretched on the way here by the universe's expansion.
It has been on record since 2019.
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