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

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

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 using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, revealing new details about its rotation and the ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

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.

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 ...