The spiraling vortex of M81
This beautiful spiral galaxy M81 has a supermassive black hole at its centre with a mass 70 million times that of our Sun and fifteen times that of the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way.
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Credit:About the Video
| Id: | heic0710a_fd |
| Release date: | 28 May 2007, 21:30 |
| Related releases: | heic0710 |
| Duration: | 50 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Messier 81 |
| Type: | Local Universe : Galaxy : Type : Spiral |
| Category: | Galaxies |
