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 ...

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes -- have ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* ...

The first black hole ever photographed is no longer just a static ring of darkness. Astronomers have now traced a colossal ...

The Event Horizon Telescope's polarized view of Sagittarius A*. The lines mark the orientation of polarization related to the magnetic field around the black hole's shadow.EHT Collaboration A new ...

Scientists have revealed an astonishing new image of the black hole in the middle of our galaxy. The object – known as Sagittarius A* – is shown in polarised light for the first time, in a profound ...

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 […] ...

"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple frequencies and completing the picture of the jet launching region." ...

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would. By Dennis Overbye Hello darkness, our old friend, ...

A new photo of the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's core looks different from those before. Scientists released the photo, captured by telescopes from around the globe, on Wednesday. The image ...