A Zoom to the Black Hole in M87

A zoom into the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) from a wide field view of the entire galaxy to the supermassive black hole at its core. This series of nine images starts with visible light views, but quickly transitions to radio wavelengths. The final image from the Event Horizon Telescope has a resolution 2500 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope.
Visualization: Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute
Music: "First Day of Spring", David Hilowitz, CC BY-NC

[@tommiller4490]

That HUGE jet of energy in itself is mind boggling.

[@greysky1252]

Biggest Frikkin Lazer beams to attach to a space sharks head

[@ian7136]

Elan Emilio Why isn’t it?

[@Gun4Freedom]

It's a 5,000 light year long, hyper-ionized, ultra high temperature, relatavistic speed plasma vortex, created by a black hole with a diameter comparable to that of the Oort cloud, consuming an average of 90 solar masses a day. You can say that, but the words can't actually make much sense when our entire solar system is microscopic compared to such scale. If you look where the magnetosphere should be, surrounding the equatorial regions, especially in the radio emission spectrum, it looks like ripples on a pond. You can cross reference those ripples, at least some of them, with variations of intensity within the vortex to see when it has had big meals.

[@bigman25plus25]

4,900 light years in length!

[@fh3652]

@@Gun4Freedom Thanks much for that explanation.

[@SuperMonkeySoup]

Well… never thought I would see a black hole without it being an artist rendition... wow...

[@picassoboy52]

Had to happen at some point

[@picassoboy52]

T38 Talon yes we have

[@KC9UDX]

Still haven't, really. Nobody has directly observed one. You can interpret data however you like.

[@KC9UDX]

@@natural_nc7230 devolution! Everything, *everything* is devolving.

[@KC9UDX]

@@natural_nc7230 evolution doesn't happen. Everything everywhere is devolving. This is just one example. Entropy is, and it is in everything.

[@goremall]

I love the happy music while showing the most destructive object in the entire universe that obliterates anything known to man

[@Alberts_Stuff]

😂 Funny

[@mewhenthewhenthe5062]

Alberts stuff still chill

[@thecitizenoftheinternet1077]

The music is happy because it's a great achievement

[@Kaizokirai]

XD

[@amir.hazwan]

maybe it doesn't obliterate things that are unknown to men? lol just kidding around.

[@ianlucero2503]

It’s boggles me at 1:00 in to the final picture how much was layered away and yet still engulfs Neptune’s orbit showing how enormous M87 is

[@GyanAddict]

You zoomed in that much and it's still that bigger than our solar system? I'm baffled.

[@srinitaaigaura]

38 micro arc seconds. Like seeing a coin from the moon. MUCH smaller than even the landers. This is by far the biggest zoom in telescopic history.

[@mangalover0149]

It's about 124 AU. So yes, swallows our solar system.

[@SNEHA-uk7oh]

GyanAddict it not only bigger than solar system it bigger than many galaxy , almost 6 billion times our sun , Largest black hole as we say smbh

[@LShaver947]

@@SNEHA-uk7oh this black hole is not bigger than a galaxy

[@michaelsrailwayfilms7928]

The quasar of this black hole is so long it can stretch from the sun to pluto and back 1.5 million times

[@Phineas_Freak]

Thank you a lot for your great PR work! You didn't have to do a zoom in like this but you did!

[@ba-tobartc.6230]

he has to or else i won't understand

[@khalidansari3499]

That Neptune orbit comparison with Black hole's size gives me chills of curiosity.

[@salmanazmat9589]

Seeing the Neptune's orbit, I felt sad for Pluto !

[@DC2022]

Pluto has an excentric orbit so it would be less relevant than the Neptune stable one. Stop this childish complain about Pluto's status. It's still a very interesting place where scientists look with very pricey instruments, for example they would not have launched New Horizon if Pluto was not interesting.

[@Astrostevo]

@@DC2022 Pluto's orbit is stable though a bit chaotic and different. We've found analogues to the Pluto-Neptune orbits with gas giant exoplanets larger than Jove too FWIW. (See Ken Croswell's articles by subject. Oh & his 2 Pluto questions and more.) Pluto is an amazing, dynamic and magnificent little planet and, y'know, it has more moons than the entire inner solar system _(Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars)_ combined! Plus if Earth orbited where Pluto did it wouldn't be able to clear its orbit either and dwarf stars are still counted as fully stars so why not dwarf planets equally counting as fully planets huh? Inconsistent much? Anyhow, think and remember not all astronomers agree with the IAU's arguably worst ever mistake here.

[@brunnomenxa]

@dread true, A dwarf person is still a person. With a planet it's the same. Pluto is still considered a planet, but a dwarf planet. Only that.

[@CooManTunes]

@@brunnomenxa Since when are dwarves people? I thought they were grown in secret gardens...

[@meghanachauhan9380]

@@DC2022 Pluto is a planet. Cry about it

[@inndeep7020]

Amazing. Imagine how the resolution may increase with the James Webb telescope. Thank you for this zoom in.

[@LShaver947]

James web is no where near being as powerful as the event horizon telescope

[@angeloportugal8899]

as if it will launch :p

[@DerekMoore82]

At this point I think the James Webb telescope is just vaporware so that some guys can have permanent government funding their whole lives.

[@supahmansid]

@@angeloportugal8899 hello 😁

[@supahmansid]

@@DerekMoore82 it's happening man

[@antithesis4715]

i feel like a caveman trying to understand this video 🤤 (it still blows my mind tho)

[@rendermanjim]

no need to feel like a caveman, they don't understand either 😂

[@CooManTunes]

I'm the opposite. I understand everything this video is saying. OOGA BOOGA, BITCH.

[@LaurenPruittMusic]

@@CooManTunes why tf do u have to be so damn rude? Just bc they didnt study astronomy for 30 years like your old ass did doesnt mean they're medically stupid.

[@s.adhinarayanan9139]

@@LaurenPruittMusic lol . U roasted him badly that his ashes are not even in this Galaxy😂😂

[@dominicdeluca6378]

@@LaurenPruittMusic it's saying "hole big, fire bigger"

[@lzr1594]

_"Lets enchance it"_

[@srinitaaigaura]

That thing is such a monster. It's rotational energy that powers that jet is estimated at an insanity beyond insanity 10^64 ergs. This is so great that it is around 0.2-0.5% of the entire rest mass energy of the Milky Way Galaxy (if all the mass was converted completely into energy) - just in the rotation of that behemoth. And it's not even the most powerful quasar either. There's an even bigger one that is 700 trillion times more luminous than the sun. Seriously, the universe is mad.

[@elz4564]

Right? Just mind boggling.. :/

[@avidnongetit8710]

So Freaking Fabulous! Amazing astounding work! This shows what it takes to get the picture. Thank You Hubble Staff!

[@UhgeneIgnorian]

Humans "Yay we finally get to see a black hole, this is a HUGE step for our civilization" Aliens "oh how cute"

[@psychicspy1234]

Ok

[@morielmarkcaballes844]

Hahaha

[@whathehellisthis]

@jnicemint hahahha

[@narendratiwari255]

@Impersonal Brahman just knowing does not bring satisfaction right?

[@conradwoods]

Awesome! Thank you for the context. Now I can visualize the scale of the matter it's sucking in.

[@henrybasic7386]

You can see 55 million years away so sad you can't see what tomorrow brings.

[@ba-tobartc.6230]

you are actually looking at the past event... 14 light years past..

[@ridhamsharma2320]

Not 55million years it is 55 million light years

[@Boombi_]

@@ridhamsharma2320 I think he meant that the light we see was emitted from it 55 million years ago but that we can't even see something one day ahead of us

[@ardiansyahputra03]

@@ridhamsharma2320 55 million ly means light needs 55 million years to hit your eyes. So you literally see 55 million years ago black hole

[@goosefraba2385]

I mean if you eat super spicy tacos, you know tomorrow brings diarrhoea

[@nexplay8356]

Me here thinking before 1:24. 'Ahh this black sphere would be the size of the sun' . But then " the size of Neptune's Orbit "😵

[@adityavishwajitsingh1052]

If it was the size of sun then we would probably see a point instead of this image

[@paalmuruganantham1457]

Okay thanks 🙏 for all

[@juap]

The previous zoom of the event horizon was already absolutely impressive

[@wrathspecter6100]

Thanks for the recommendation youtube! Love science and space so much

[@MrKKUT1984]

That little bitty circle in the middle is the size of Neptune's orbit.. that's mind boggling

[@DifferentSaturner]

I've enjoyed some recent 'black hole' videos from this channel & this one amazing as well. Luckily, you've added a piece of soothing music. So that I felt less scared. Thanks from Great Britain (Sat 27 Mar 2021 13h15)

[@srinitaaigaura]

Considering that the human eye can resolve up to 1 arc min Or 60 arc seconds, this video can resolve up to 10 micro arc seconds or even less. That's like a factor of 6 million to 10 million times better than the human eye. That makes M87's black hole the smallest angular size ever imaged in astrophysics history.

[@LShaver947]

The quasar was one of the coolest things I've seen!

[@Lonewolf-]

Lol i literally read the title as "A zoom call to the black hole in M87" 😂😂😅

[@bexer2172]

Lmao

[@raikantopenny7335]

Same here 😂

[@UhgeneIgnorian]

I bet us finding a black hole is the equivalent of witnessing a baby's first steps to aliens. They're all like "oh how cute they finally took a few steps"

[@ryansigler5375]

We r the aliens to them

[@thaoneguy2]

@Megas Pantelos are you trying to be funny or cool? Didn't work weirdo

[@thaoneguy2]

@Megas Pantelos not really no one reacted or responded with enjoyment

[@mungbean60]

Beautiful and mind boggling! And so encouraging to see what humans can achieve when they put their mind to it and work together.

[@whatulookingat]

If only all humanity was so together, just think where we could be in our evolution?

[@UVtec]

But how many football fields is that?

[@carlottasecchi4261]

Dear Dr. Summers, thank you for such very interesting zooming. You give us so intensely the exactness and wonder and poetry of Science, and of Nature.

[@APAstronaut333]

All these different lenses and scientists still can’t find out why kids like the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch

[@Leo.Wirabuana]

I am truly feel sorry for they who give thumb down. Something sure are wrong with them.

[@Chase_baker_1996]

Flat earthers

[@064junaid8]

Thanks for including me 😊

[@kaveeshdissanayake8307]

Nicki Minaj release a song with just 10 words repeating over and over again with girls shaking their asses : 100M+ views A zoom to the black hole m18 after years of research and billions of dollars spent on it : 470K views. Not everyone loves science.. yeah thats true.. but these types of videos deserves more audience...

[@user-oz5iy4bl1u]

Dumbass above me

[@SpectorEuro4]

@@user-oz5iy4bl1u he's got a point though

[@user-oz5iy4bl1u]

@@SpectorEuro4 agree and without looking it up on the internet i can give him dozen amazing reasons but the ignorance in his statement will overshadowed his ability to understand and on top of that just click on his profile, you will find that the account is created few hours ago and he replied with this same statement on five different comments.

[@kaveeshdissanayake8307]

@@user-oz5iy4bl1u there are two types of people. Who are fascinated about the new discoveries and new inventions and they appreciate it. They may not be huge fans who commit their time researching about such stuff. But still they like such content. And then theres people like that guy. Who lives a fake life. Pretending to be someone else and spread hatred. Every country has their own unique types of idiots. The best answer for them is ignorance. Lol

[@mrpositronia]

Who'd thumbs down this video? Someone who thinks the image is too blurry?

[@davidhenningson4782]

Creationists and flatearthers... according to flatearthers... space doesn't even exist... figure that one out 🙄

[@rehmanfiaz16666]

Space will never fail to excite and mesmorize you

[@AniketKumar-lw6su]

Neptune's orbit was so small compared to its size which was zoomed in so much now just imagine how massive that energy coming out of it would be it would be like enough for the whole earth for many years.

[@spentify4999]

It whould be enough for a trillion years and more.

[@AniketKumar-lw6su]

@@spentify4999 just think if we could get aur hands on it. We would never run out of energy

[@AniketKumar-lw6su]

But it is beyond impossible atleast with today's technology

[@spentify4999]

@@AniketKumar-lw6su true

[@sunset368]

The music makes this black hole.. feels lonely but happy.. 😊

[@CLBOO6]

Supermasively Amazing!

[@ShahirUsmani]

Can we take a picture of a potential habitable planet using the method employed for the black hole picture ?

[@relaxmotion8918]

Now i understand why it is blurred🥺

[@adibzadeh]

I feel I'm a special person who was in this age to see an image of a black hole for the first time

[@BartAlder]

Same. First gravity waves now this. Exciting times!

[@manifeellikeawoman6888]

Yes but its kind of saddening that we wont be here when the real fun starts.

[@atd2832]

Strange .. amazing .. wonderful ... Mind-blowing👍👍👍

[@jamesdaceyjr8857]

Brilliantly done.. Thank you...

[@SnaketheJake87]

That last bit that showed Neptune's orbit gave me thw chills. Man, we're insignificant.

[@sumuqh]

It didn't seem huge until they put Neptune's orbit in perspective.

[@lauradigigli7037]

Thank you.. amazing video, amazing sience. ❤❤❤

[@KuroyamaFuyuki]

Nasa and the others did a great job capturing this...

[@keybutnolock]

No words ...but thanks. Thank you !

[@helmutzollner5496]

Wow! Amazing pictures. It is unbelievable how much info can be pulled out of this object that is so mindbogglingly far away. Thank you for sharing this.

[@A.m.a.r.u]

_A m a z i n g m u s i c..._

[@vernalc2449]

I can't wait for the James Webb! IF it goes as planned, it should make even the Hubble's AMAZING pics look like a Windows95 computer with a dial-up modem.

[@LeonidasSthlm]

Cool!

[@AtlasReburdened]

Beautiful and amazing... but shouldn't that be "Event Horizon Telescopes" with the "s" on the end there?

[@priyabratadash381]

Music of the Universe..... Love it and the philosophy that describes this wonderful nature ....

[@Yetipfote]

wait. so our solar system would easily fit into that event horizon??

[@akumacs9786]

Wow The Radiation 😮

[@alankritsrivastava99]

Why this black hole is much brighter than my future?...

[@felytaghap5249]

Respect for the cameraman to get a picture of the black hole.

[@anurag8032]

Look mom I'm spaghettified!

[@KC9UDX]

Black holes, where nothing can escape. Nothing except all that matter blasting away from it at mind boggling speed.

[@Munecoshh1]

It’s f amazing, how closer we are getting to have even better pictures of this black hole 🕳 knowing how FARRRRRR IT IS

[@ماهرمحمودعلي-ظ1ظ]

Hubble Telescope Hi I have questions about the speed of galaxy rotation and dark matter The speed of rotation of the galaxies in the universe is due to dark matter The question is if the ratio of dark matter is low, will the speed be slower? If the ratio of dark matter is too much, will the speed be stronger? The second question is how galaxies were formed if the ratio of dark matter was very small. Please send question one and question two to physicists

[@kermanguy1877]

Dark matter just adds mass, thus gravitational force, to a galaxy. With more dark matter, the galaxy exerts more force onto the stars inside it. Imagine that a star is a ball, and that the force of gravity is a long string. Now imagine that you swing the ball around your head. That's an orbit. The faster you swing the ball, the stronger it pulls away from you, and the harder you have to hold it to keep it going around your head. If you pulled on it with the same force, but made the ball go slower, it would come and hit you in the head. If you spun the ball faster, but didn't hold it tight enough, it would fly away. This is basically how stars and orbits work, but how hard the string is tugging on them is constant, in respect to gravity, at least. At least, it should be. When observing galaxies, the stars are moving too fast to not fly off, so dark matter was added as a fudge factor to explain it. Just some mysterious matter to add mass to equations to explain why the stars could move faster than they should be able to.

[@youchris67]

Amazing how all the photons are completely negated beginning 2/3 out from the event horizon! A region of no detectable electromagnetic radiation due to the unfathomable gravitational time/space warping even before reaching the event horizon.

[@drew2474]

Finally a nice backgroubd music 🎶

[@benrumson1063]

at the end they could have held a while longer with the circle saying: "Size of Neptune's orbit" to give peoples of earth time to digest the size of this. Speaking of size, enjoy a bucket of fried chicken today for national digest day!

[@KillerAntx]

putting in the orbit of Neptune put into perspective how massive that black whole is.

[@muratbilgili8166]

Expected historical moment

[@vikrantkatoch8982]

Beautiful ❤️

[@Kingstersreejit]

When it says, "size of Neptune's orbit" I got Goosebumps

[@frankstone3809]

I never thought I would be able to see what is at the bottom.

[@rocheuro]

so zoomed and "tiny" ! and you're still thinking.. omg, this is huge!

[@iffathabib7466]

An amazing video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@itsdonaldo]

0:27 PEW PEW PEW! LASERBEAM!

[@davidkosiba624]

I always thought that black holes create jets at both side , didn't know that there are one sided ones too

[@antares5029]

Wonderful essence of Astronomy!always fascinated by black holes 🌌⚫🌌

[@Cricgeek007]

Does anyone know about the background music ...

[@Jay-so2dk]

Just a curious question to anyone who knows a lot about space, so when a black hole starts its destructive part it releases the energy of the star its destroying? Is the black hole sucking the sucking the star in or just pushing its pieces in all directions?

[@AstroRoxy]

sucking in first and pushing out its own energy as jets

[@Jay-so2dk]

@@AstroRoxy interesting, I thought it would suck a star and transfer its energy to a different location in the galaxy lol. Thanks for the info😊

[@zacktomczak4962]

Great work.. that had to be very time consuming, but it paid off well..👍

[@rimmipeepsicles1870]

I can't believe tech has gone this far, with us now looking in other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum and across vast distances.

[@bhootbangla5404]

Travelling at a speed of light is not possible. But these blackholes can send us to where nowwhere😂

[@josephs8135]

If we say that we are absolutely nothing face with universe, we are still been extremely egocentric.

[@spentify4999]

ikr?

[@sabungajem]

Amazing...

[@ophello]

How big of an equivalent feature would this represent on the moon?

[@hubblespacetelescope]

An angular resolution of 15 micro-arc-seconds corresponds to a physical scale of about one inch at the average distance of the Moon. This answer should not be construed to imply that this array of radio telescopes could actually do such an observation.

[@StaticBlaster]

Awesome presentation!

[@Keshavmishra79]

Guess what is more surprising ... It's event horizon last shown in video is of the size of Neptune's orbit

[@plesnitrener3299]

1:24 can anyone explain what is orange, what is yellow and what is black? thank you

[@drawisnu]

Video : zoom zoom zoom Me : ahh smoll blackhole Video : Size of Neptune's orbit Me : WTF?!?

[@TrendSetter-w7s]

Which is this piano note??

[@ruanhuman]

The power of a black hole is just mind boggling!

[@zone8848]

if Neptune orbit is that small , how big is the black hole entity itself?

[@Nexus-ub4hs]

Thank you!

[@bert7109]

Wait so we had all those pictures before hand? imo they look even cooler!

[@my3dviews]

Hubble can't see the black hole, but can see the huge jet that emanates from it.

[@Raku2040]

That jet is nearly 4900 light years long

[@Gamingworld-gn7rh]

Plz background music link

[@wrestlingentertainer1165]

This is supermassive Black hole.

[@Thepluginguy]

Amazing!

[@prbhvsr]

what a beauty !

[@teytreet7358]

We are so small

[@user-fh5ov4tu2j]

video: zooms into black hole me: oh ok cool video: "size of Neptune's orbit" me: hold up

[@thanhpham8172]

The core of the m87 rotate very quickly like A super large electric turbine that produces super large electrical energy. Every second the m87 pushes out into space 26 billion billion tons of photons return to their original position after 120 000 years, thus pushed the galaxy m87 around m87 very or derly

[@spentify4999]

whut