What makes the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) so special? In this video, we explore how the EHT managed to capture the ...

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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a massive plasma jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of ...

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

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 ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a massive plasma jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. This “blow-torch”-like jet, traveling near the speed of ...

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 ...

This is an artist's concept looking down into the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. A supermassive black hole ejects a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma, traveling at nearly the speed of ...

This is an artist’s concept looking down into the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. A supermassive black hole ejects a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma, traveling at nearly the speed of ...

In a surprising discovery, astronomers have found that the intense plasma jet from the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87 might be causing nearby stars to explode more frequently. Hubble Space ...