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M87 Virgo A galaxy in Virgo 55 million LY

A large elliptical galaxy hosting the first imaged black hole.

A “jet” of extremely high speed particles ejected by the black hole
can be seen near the core at about the11:30 position.

A tiny red-ish galaxy at about 1 O'clock is 1.3 billion LY distant (upper of the pair).