The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. Credit: Space.com | ...

When you stare for long enough into the heart of a galaxy to try to catch a glimpse of the black hole that lurks therein, that may not be all you catch. When a huge collaboration directed telescopes ...

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 ...

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

The striking image depicted the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, located in Virgo's constellation. Now, this same black hole is once again captivating scientists with an ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

M87's Black Hole: The black hole in the M87 galaxy is about 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...

Light curve of the gamma-ray flare (bottom) and collection of quasi-simulated images of the M87 jet (top) at various scales obtained in radio and X-ray during the 2018 campaign. The instrument ...

The first black hole ever photographed is still surprising researchers. Immortalized by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019, M87* , was recently spotted emitting a massive gamma-ray flare.