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. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Alec ...

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The flare, which lasted for about three days in April and May 2018, erupted from the supermassive black hole designated M87*, which lies at the heart of the galaxy M87, located around 55 million ...

For the first time in a decade, the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy has erupted in an enormous gamma-ray flare, a rare and significant event that defied expectations in the latest analysis ...

This impressive achievement by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87, also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486. Located in the Virgo constellation, ...

M87*, the supermassive black hole residing in the galaxy Messier 87, is famously the first black hole ever photographed by the Earth-based paparazzi at the Event Horizon Telescope project.

Surrounded by stars and galaxies, the galaxy M87, with a linear “jet” emitting from the center, is seen from a distance as captured by the Event Horizon Telescope. The first-ever image of a black hole ...

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...

Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the largest gravitationally bound type of structure in the universe. It came to fame in April 2019 ...

An international team of astronomers, including CfA astronomers and collaborators from VERITAS and Chandra, recorded the first very-high energy flaring episode from supermassive black hole M87 since ...

Light curve of the gamma-ray flare (bottom) and collection of quasi-simulated images of the M87 jet (top) at various scales obtained in radio and X-ray during the 2018 campaign. The instrument ...