The Inner Jet of the Radio Galaxy M87, located in the center of the Virgo cluster some 50 million light years away from Earth, was observed by Yuri Kovalev from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and his colleagues with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 2 cm wavelength. The resulting image provides details down to a resolution of one milli-arcsecond, corresponding to a linear resolution of only three light months. This is fifty times better than the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope at optical wavelengths.
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