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March 24, 1980

Messier 87—the Giant Black Mass Galaxy

Dr. William Mathews
Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. William Mathews of Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz will describe optical, radio, and x-ray observations which suggest that this enormous galaxy in Virgo is rapidly devouring hot gas and shooting out jets of relativistic gas from its center, which may contain a huge black hole.