Messier 87 (M87), located about 54 million light-years from Earth, is a prime location to study the accretion of black holes and the formation of jets. New high-resolution images of M87 and its black hole have been published in the journal Nature.
They show how the relativistic jet connects the black hole with the ring and emerges from the surrounding ring. It is the first time that astronomers can see how a jet forms and how it emerges from a black hole.