Scientists use computers to understand infamous M87 black hole in first ever picture

Scientists have used profoundly complex computer simulations to better understand the black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87. That black hole is probably the famous one ever to exist: it is the one shown in the first ever picture of such an object, taken in 2019. But despite that unprecedented look, much still remains about the black hole and the forces within that galaxy that feed and surround it. The galaxy in which it dwells is 55 million light years away from us. It is a giant galaxy, made up of 12,000 globular clusters – compared with only 200 in our own Milky Way.