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.

In the animation, NASA breaks down how big black holes like those found at the center of the Milky Way and Messier 87. Astronomers have captured direct images of both these black holes using ...

It's about 6.5 billion times as massive as our Sun — that's enormous even compared to other supermassive black holes and lives in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. And as far as experts can ...

The first ever black hole to be pictured in focus was Messier 87, the black hole spinning in the middle of the Milky Way, and the picture was released in 2019.

The latest achievement was the team’s second since April 2019, when it released the first image of a black hole from the Messier 87 galaxy, which is about 55 million light years from Earth.