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.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole released in 2019, has today a new view of the massive object at the centre of the Messier 87 (M87 ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has been sharped using a machine learning technique called PRIMO. PRIMO is short ...

Famed physicist Albert Einstein first theorized that an observer should see a ring of light surrounding the black hole, ...

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 ...

For instance, one such galaxy, Messier 87, which is roughly 54 million light-years from Earth, is home to a 6.5-billion-solar-mass supermassive black hole which produces 3,000 light-year-long jets ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Take a cosmic journey through 8 breathtaking black hole images shared by NASA, revealing the mysterious beauty and immense ...

So, the EHT team did the next best thing. M87, the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87, proved to be the perfect first candidate for observation due to its enormous size and ...

M87*, the supermassive black hole in Messier 87, continues to captivate astronomers. EHT observations from 2017 and 2018 revealed turbulence in the accretion flow, with the plasma ring’s ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...