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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

For instance, one such galaxy, Messier 87, which is roughly 54 million light ... like there's more activity going on around the M87 jet," said co-author Michael Shara from the American Museum ...