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.

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet ...

The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019. It was notable for its bright golden ring, ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

For example, astronomers know that a powerful jet of hot gas blasts from the Messier 87 black hole at the speed of light. This jet, however, cannot be seen in the famous 2019 image. One way to improve ...

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.

It's about 6.5 billion times as massive as our Sun — that's enormous even compared to other supermassive black holes and lives in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. And as far as experts can ...

It suggests that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes but also reveals a hint of a hidden jet in Sgr A* ... M87*, at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87, and Sagittarius A* ...