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The Jet279 viewsSubtracting a virtual elliptical galaxy from M87 reveals its famous jet. It is powered by a rapidly spinning accretion disk around a super-massive black hole. Hubble Telescope measurements of the speed of the jet found that it exhibited superluminal velocity - around 4 to 5 times the speed of light. This is a line of sight illusion due to the jet approaching us at close to the speed of light. Nearly all the faint fuzzies are globular clusters. David R
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