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GMVA+ALMA image of the central black hole region in Messier 87 obtained on April 14-15, 2018 at a wavelength of 3.5 mm. The large image depicts the jet and central ring as reconstructed by the standard CLEAN method. The inset shows a magnification of the inner region obtained with the super-resolving SMILI method, revealing the ring shape with a diameter of 64 microarcseconds, which corresponds to 8.4 Schwarzschild radii.

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Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF.

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