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Supermassive black hole captured in an unexpected spin shift
New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...
Space.com17d
The 1st monster black hole ever imaged has messy eating habits
or "accretion flow," feeding the supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years from Earth at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87). The team was also able to determine that the axis ...
M87* observations catch the black hole's turbulent accretion flow
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 ...
Business Insider5y
Event Horizon Telescope took first image of a black hole — here's how
It's the supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, about 25,000 light-years away. But it's significantly smaller than the one in Messier 87. So it will probably be ...
Physics World2d
Supermassive black hole displays ‘unprecedented’ X-ray outbursts
Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...
Phys.org19d
M87* observations catch the black hole's turbulent accretion flow
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 ...