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Object Information

Messier 87

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a giant elliptical galaxy, sitting close to the centre of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. It is about 200 times the mass of the Milky Way galaxy.



Facts and Figures


Object type: An Elliptical Galaxy with an Active NucleusA Cluster of Galaxies - Black Hole.
Distance: 513,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 671,000,000,000,000,000 km.