The enigmatic and awe-inspiring nature of black holes continues to captivate astronomers worldwide, and the supermassive ...

I love it when researchers observe an extra-weird particle, and this week, scientists reported the observation of a particle ...

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.

A black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy has erupted in an enormous gamma-ray flare that is defying astronomer's ...

Scientists have observed a rare and powerful gamma-ray flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy ...

M87*, at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87, and Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way. Key to revealing strong, twisted magnetic fields in the image was the use of polarised ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet ...

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 ...