Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole to be imaged — the supermassive black hole M87*, , which resides at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy.

or "accretion flow," feeding the supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years from Earth at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87). The team was also able to determine that the axis ...

These imperfections are a result of the limitations of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a planet-wide network of radio telescopes ... astronomers know that a powerful jet of hot gas blasts from the ...

This series of telescopes, combined, has about the same capabilities as a telescope as large as our entire planet ... and lives in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. And as far as experts ...