Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes -- have identified the likely starting point of a massive cosmic jet in the heart of ...

The first black hole ever photographed is no longer just a static ring of darkness. Astronomers have now traced a colossal ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* ...

The Event Horizon Telescope's polarized view of Sagittarius A*. The lines mark the orientation of polarization related to the magnetic field around the black hole's shadow.EHT Collaboration A new ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 and were surprised to find that its outer parts have been stripped away by still unknown ...

A 3,000-light-year cosmic jet erupts from M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, offering a rare view of black hole activity from the galaxy Messier 87 ...

M87 lies at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, about 55 million light-years from Earth. The black hole, with a mass ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local universe, containing ...

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would. By Dennis Overbye Hello darkness, our old friend, ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet […] ...