Step through data collected by 19 telescopes of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87.
Start with an image resembling a glowing orange donut floating in black space, the radio data from the Event Horizon Telescope.
A square shows a distance of 0.01 light-years. We zoom out.
The donut becomes a dot inside a bright vertical oval with a white core and yellow and orange outer rings.
We zoom out further to a brilliant white dome shape nearing 1 light-year across. A mottled white and orange
pattern streaks from the dome toward our upper right. This is a jet powered by the black hole.
A zigzagging pattern inside the jet is apparent when it nears 10 light-years in length.
When we zoom out further such that the white dome shape and the bright orange jet is approximately 100 light-years long, it presents as a solid streak.
We zoom out further, to a brilliant white egg-shape nearing 1,000 light-years in length.
The video splits into three vertical panels. On our left are radio data in oranges and whites. On our right are X-ray data, as purple and white.
And in the middle are visible light images as white shapes on a blue background. In all, the jet continues to extend toward our upper right.
The black hole's gamma ray emissions then fill the screen, like a glowing white ball surrounded by an irregular purple ring, measuring almost 1,000,000 light-years across.
At this point, the video stops, then we quickly zoom back in.