Galaxy Messier 87
A quick look at the center of Messier 87, which is the brightest galaxy in the northern part of the Virgo Cluster, located 55 million light-years from our galaxy.
Messier 87 or M87 (in English: Messier 87 or M87 or Virgo A or NGC 4486) is a huge elliptical galaxy, the brightest galaxy in the northern part of the Virgo galaxy cluster, located 55 million light-years from our galaxy. The Messier 87 galaxy contains active galactic nebulae that emit radiation of many different frequencies. Her name in Arabic is Virgin A.
The galaxy, Messier 87, is the closest elliptical galaxy to Earth. At the same time, it radiates radiation in the radio wave range and is of interest to both astronomers and amateurs. The mass of the Virgo A galaxy is estimated at about 4.2 million solar masses. The diameter of the galaxy M87 is estimated at about 120,000 light-years, and therefore it is slightly smaller than our galaxy, which has a diameter of 150,000 light-years.
Massive star clusters
The galaxy, Messier 87, contains a very large number of star clusters (it may be the richest galaxy in star clusters). A study conducted in 2006 estimates that M87 contains about 12,000 of these star clusters, that is, 150 to 200 times more than our galaxy contains.
In 1918, the astronomer Heber Curtis discovered a jet of material emerging from that galaxy and described it as a “strange, straight stream.” This jet extends a distance of 5,000 light-years from the nucleus of M87, which consists of matter released perhaps by a supermassive black hole (it has been proven that there is a disk of matter rotating around the nucleus at great speed). Scientists believe that the black hole in M87 has a mass of about 4.6 billion solar masses. He also discovered that the galaxy Messier 87 emits high-energy X-rays. The galaxy, Messier 87, has become one of the objects most interested in studying.
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