Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have succeeded in measuring the size of giant galaxy Messier 87 and were surprised to find that its outer parts have been stripped away by still unknown ...

The huge halo around giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 appears on this very deep image. An excess of light in the top-right part of this halo, and the motion of planetary nebulae in the galaxy, are ...

CBSNEWS - The galaxy Messier 87 has quite an appetite. New observations by astronomers at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutes have revealed that the giant elliptical ...

Last year, a telescope captured the very first image of an "unseeable" black hole, dazzling the scientific community and space enthusiasts alike with a static picture of M87*, the supermassive object ...

This artist’s impression depicts the black hole at the heart of the enormous elliptical galaxy Messier 87, or M87. The superheated material surrounding the black hole is shown, as is the relativistic ...

The release of a remarkable image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy isn’t only an incredible scientific achievement — it also agrees precisely with predictions about what black holes are ...

A galactic jet has been ejected from the only black hole that humans have ever taken an image of, and researchers believe it's shaped like a helix. Messier 87 galactic jet helix structure. According ...

WASHINGTON - Using telescopes worldwide, astronomers have captured the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Meet Sagittarius A*, located more than 27,000 light ...

The new observations reveal that Messier 87's halo of stars has been cut short, with a diameter of about a million light-years, significantly smaller than expected, despite being about three times the ...