Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

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 ...

Sgr A*, in turn, is dwarfed by some supermassive black holes detected in other large galaxies such as one with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the sun in a galaxy called Messier 87.

The gigantic black hole at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy, located approximately 53 million light-years away in the Virgo (the Maiden) cluster of galaxies, has an estimated mass of six ...

Messier 87 (M87) is a massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole and a luminous relativistic jet. Read about its history, observations, and astrophysical importance.

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.

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.

By examining a distant supermassive black hole, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a shocking link ...

While Messier 87 is located approximately 53 million light-years from Earth, the closest hypothesized black hole, Gaia BH1, is located approximately 1,560 light-years from Earth.

They are taking snapshots of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87 (M87) — which is the black hole they took that original image of five years ago — to see how it ...

But the disc of ultrahot material circling a black hole, which you can see in the image below of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called Messier 87, is visible.

In 2019, the EHT announced the first direct image taken of a black hole at the center of an elliptical galaxy, Messier 87, located in the constellation of Virgo some 55 million light-years away.