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Between 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an international project involving scientists and engineers from around the globe, captured data on M87. This massive black hole is surrounded by an accretion disk comprised of gas and dust swirling at extraordinarily high velocities. New observations indicate that the brightest region of this luminous ring underwent a shift of 30 degrees over the span of one year. This motion suggests that the rotation axis of M87 is oriented away from Earth.