At the core of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), a cosmic behemoth is challenging preconceptions. Renowned for being the first black hole ever directly photographed, the supermassive black hole M87 has ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet ...

A machine learning algorithm has sharpened the first-ever image of a black hole, the supermassive monster at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87, to its maximum fidelity.

The new photo features the monstrous supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the first black hole ever directly imaged by humanity.. The image shows precisely for the ...

The first photo taken of a black hole looks a little sharper after the original data was combined with machine learning. The image, first released in 2019, now includes more detail and resembles a ...

In 1781, astronomer Charles Messier discovered a bright spot in the constellation Virgo now known as Messier 87, or M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years away that contains several trillion stars.

The iconic picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a giant galaxy sitting 53 million light-years from Earth in the "nearby" Virgo cluster, was first released in 2019.

A new image shows for the first time the jet and shadow of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, or M87. R.-S. Lu/E. Ros/S. Dagnello/ESO.

At the center of Messier 87, a giant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is a darkness 24 billion miles across and as massive as 6.5 billion suns — a trapdoor to infinity called a black hole.

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 ...

In 2023, Messier 87, became the first black hole image sharpened with AI and the telescope also took stellar images of the “buff” whirlpool galaxy Messier 51. More deals, ...