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The 13 pages that link to Messier 87, each with the reason it gives.

• Active galactic nucleusBroader topic: Its black hole became the first imaged directly by the Event Horizon Telescope.

• Elliptical galaxyBroader topic: Its enormous stellar extent and central black hole make it a prominent giant elliptical.

• GalaxyBroader topic: It exemplifies a massive galaxy whose central black hole powers a visible jet.

• Event Horizon TelescopeRelated: Its central black hole supplied the EHT’s first imaging target.

• Virgo ClusterBroader topic: Its central position and enormous mass make it Virgo’s most prominent galaxy.

• Radio galaxyBroader topic: Its jet shows how an active galaxy’s central engine launches material across galactic scales.

• Centaurus ACompared with: Its jet and black hole provide a better-known comparison for Centaurus A’s active nucleus.

• Pierre MéchainBroader topic: Méchain discovered this galaxy in 1781; it became one of the catalog’s best-known entries.

• Sombrero GalaxyCompared with: M87 contrasts with the Sombrero’s conspicuous disk and dust lane despite their shared Virgo-region setting.

• NGC 1275Compared with: Like NGC 1275, it anchors a nearby cluster and launches jets, but in a different environment.

• Astrophysical jetBroader topic: Its nearby, prominent jet provides a closely studied example of black-hole-powered outflow.

• Intergalactic starRelated: Its surrounding cluster environment contains stars stripped from galaxies, including stars near M87.

• Messier 49Related: It is Messier 49’s massive Virgo counterpart and the cluster’s dominant central galaxy.