Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed. HVSs travel much faster than normal stars, and sometimes, they can exceed the ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

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

The M87* black hole exhibits chaotic gas flow and plasma ring dynamics, offering new insights into black hole physics.

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

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

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 ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released new findings regarding the supermassive black hole M87* based on observations from 2017 and 2018. A study by the Max Planck Society highlighted ...

The supermassive black hole has been sending out flashes that have increased in speed. Astronomers say they have never seen anything like it before. The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654 ...