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

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet ...

When the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole — the one at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy some 55 million light-years away from Earth — was revealed to the world in 2019 ...

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.

M87*, at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87, and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way. Key to revealing strong, twisted magnetic fields in the image was the use of polarised ...

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 ...