See The Particle Jets Spewing More than 1,000 Light Years from The Centre of M87.
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In April 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) wasn't the
only powerful instrument focused on galaxy Messier 87 (M87).
While the EHT was focused on the black hole's event horizon,
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was taking a wider picture of the same target
— and the image created by those observations puts the black hole photo into
spectacular context.
1,000 Light Years
In a blogpost published, the Chandra team expanded
on the stunning display of brilliant particles observed in its black hole
companion image:
"While Chandra can't see the shadow, its field of view
is far bigger than the EHT's, allowing it to glimpse the entire length of the
jet of high-energy particles blasted by the black hole's tremendous
gravitational and magnetic fields." This jet stretches over 1,000 light
years from the galaxy's centre."
Reference: NASA