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    Elliptical Galaxies

    Messier 87

    Messier 87

    Messier 87 is a giant elliptical galaxy in Virgo, about 55 million light-years from Earth, and the dominant galaxy near the core of the Virgo Cluster. It hosts the supermassive black hole M87*, the first black hole ever imaged directly, and powers a prominent relativistic jet visible from radio to X-ray wavelengths.