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 ...

AI has helped astronomers crack open some of the universe s best-kept secrets by analyzing massive datasets about black holes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of distant galactic centers. Using light at a frequency of 345 GHz, they’ve peered ...