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 ...

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 ...

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

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

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

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole to be imaged — the supermassive black hole M87*, , which resides at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy.

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 ...

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 ...

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