Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 and were surprised to find that its outer parts have been stripped away by still unknown ...

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

The huge halo around giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 appears on this very deep image. An excess of light in the top-right part of this halo, and the motion of planetary nebulae in the galaxy, are ...

This artist’s impression depicts the black hole at the heart of the enormous elliptical galaxy Messier 87, or M87. The superheated material surrounding the black hole is shown, as is the relativistic ...

Astronomers have captured the first direct image of a black hole as it blasts out a powerful jet. The new photo features the monstrous supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 ...

CBSNEWS - The galaxy Messier 87 has quite an appetite. New observations by astronomers at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutes have revealed that the giant elliptical ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet […] ...

The release of a remarkable image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy isn’t only an incredible scientific achievement — it also agrees precisely with predictions about what black holes are ...

The new observations reveal that Messier 87's halo of stars has been cut short, with a diameter of about a million light-years, significantly smaller than expected, despite being about three times the ...