At the core of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), a cosmic behemoth is challenging preconceptions. Renowned for being the first ...

The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and ...

The famous black hole M87 keeps surprising us. New research calculates its spin speed to be at 80% of the theoretical limit, ...

The black hole weighs about 6.5 billion solar masses. Scientists now believe it spins at around 80% of the maximum speed ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, known as M87*, continues to reveal its secrets. A new study using data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has determined that ...

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of massive galaxies like our own Milky Way. Check out these 7 rare images of ...

The iconic image of a supermassive black hole in the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy—described by astronomers as a "fuzzy orange donut"—was a stunning testament to the capabilities of the Event ...

Now a new study published today in the journal Nature describes how images of that black hole, named after its galaxy, Messier 87 (M87), has a much larger circle of debris around it than the 2017 ...

Luciano Rezzolla, chair of theoretical astrophysics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, remarks that “ black holes as gigantic as M87* are expected to change only on very long timescales ...

Using a neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes, astronomers have found that the one at the ...

Combined, this array acts like a telescope the size of Earth, and it was able to collect more than a petabyte of data while staring at M87’s black hole in April 2017. It then took two years for ...