M87 (Virgo A) — galaxy, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
The monster at the heart of the Virgo Cluster — a giant elliptical swarming with trillions of stars and 12,000 globular clusters, firing a 5,000-light-year jet from the first black hole humanity ever imaged.
M87 (Virgo A) is placed at its true position on the sky and at its real measured distance, not as a flat backdrop. Fly out from the Sun in the live 3D view and watch it change from a point of light into structure as you approach, with the scale bar showing just how far out you have travelled.