New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this supermassive black hole feasts upon.

Metsähovi Radio Telescope, located in the forests outside Greater Helsinki in Finland, is one of the telescopes used to take the first image of the M87 black hole together with its powerful jet.

It's about 6.5 billion times as massive as our Sun — that's enormous even compared to other supermassive black holes and lives in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. And as far as experts can ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of supermassive black holes like never before.

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

The supermassive black hole is at the centre the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy which is 55 million light years from Earth and is positioned next to our own Milky Way galaxy. It was the first ...

For example, astronomers know that a powerful jet of hot gas blasts from the Messier 87 black hole at the speed of light. This jet, however, cannot be seen in the famous 2019 image. One way to ...

Cañizales The persistent shadow of the supermassive black hole of M87. II. Model comparisons and theoretical interpretations, The EHT Collaboration, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 693, 22 January 2025 ...