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 ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

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. The ...

The jet is flowing from the monstrous supermassive black hole at the heart of Messier 87, which was also the first black hole ever directly imaged. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Astronomers have used the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to reveal a new view of the black hole at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy. The image shows how the black hole looks and polarized ...

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 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 ...