The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...

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

The M87* black hole exhibits chaotic gas flow and plasma ring dynamics, offering new insights into black hole physics.

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

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

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

NASA's stunning images of black holes enhance our understanding and intrigue regarding these cosmic mysteries.

Collaboration unveils a new analysis of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87, known as M87*. This analysis combines observations made in 2017 and 2018, and reveals new ...

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 ...

The new image—published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters—shows a magnetic field structure very similar to that of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, a supergiant ...

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 ...