Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

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 ...

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 ...

An expert in black ... 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 the resolution of black hole images is ...

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 ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

Black holes captivate scientists and the public. NASA's advanced technology provides visual glimpses into these mysteries, showcasing stunning images that reveal the universe's secrets.

The black hole, called Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), is ... The work indicated that, at certain wavelengths, future black hole images could be 50% sharper than previously published images.

Scientists have been actively observing Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)—a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times the mass of the sun— since the early 1990s. Sgr A* regularly exhibits flares ...