This supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion times the mass of our sun, resides at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy in the Virgo galaxy cluster, located 55 million light-years from Earth.

While previous estimates of M87's spin ranged anywhere from 0.1 to 0.98, this new method suggests it's definitely on the high end—at least 0.8 and possibly much closer to the theoretical maximum ...

M87 turns out to be triaxial, like a potato. The revised view provides a more precise measure of the mass of the central black hole: 5.37 billion solar masses. Skip to main content.

M87*'s gravity now dominates an area at the center of M87 about 3,000 light-years wide. The team used the Keck II Telescope to observe stars in a 70,000 light-year-wide region that includes this ...

M87 is about 55 million light-years away, which is reasonably close in intergalactic terms. It still took 170 observational campaigns between 2020 and 2022 to get enough data to make a determination.

The black hole at its center, known as M87, is billions of times more massive than the Sun and gained widespread attention after being imaged by the EHT international telescope network in 2019.

The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019.

Tilted accretion disc model Artist’s impression of the black hole at the centre of M87, showing how the accretion disc and jet are misaligned with the rotational axis of the black hole. (Courtesy: ...

The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87 has gotten its first official makeover based on a new machine learning technique called PRIMO. The team used the data achieved ...

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 ...