The first moving images of a black hole could reveal swirls of plasma and collapsing stars, deepening our understanding of ...

What makes the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) so special? In this video, we explore how the EHT managed to capture the first-ever image of a black hole, located at the center of the M87 galaxy, 55 ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have observed that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reside at the centers of most massive ...

A study of the galaxy M87 showed that nova explosions appear to be occurring at an unusual high frequency in the neighborhood of one of the jets from the galaxy's central black hole. But there's ...

The M87 galaxy is monstrous. It contains several trillions of stars, compared to our Milky Way's hundreds of billions. And the supermassive black hole at its center is shooting an outstretched ...

That’s what’s happening in the center of M87, a giant elliptical galaxy about 50 million light-years from Earth that has a spike of light shooting from its core. The galaxy harbors a black ...

Plotting the location of Hubble Space Telescope observations of novae – exploding stars – in the giant elliptical galaxy M87. The galaxy’s most notable feature is a 3,000-light-year-long jet ...

Remember that jaw-dropping first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at our galaxy’s centre, which captivated the world ...

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Jet Set Black holes are some of the most destructive objects in the universe — but it's not just their terrifying gravity you ...