The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has been sharped using a machine learning technique called PRIMO.

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.

For instance, one such galaxy, Messier 87, which is roughly 54 million light-years from Earth, is home to a 6.5-billion-solar-mass supermassive black hole which produces 3,000 light-year-long jets ...

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.

The discovery also suggests that, like Messier 87, Sagittarius A* could have a jet of radiation and high-speed particles shooting out of the black hole. We just can't see it yet.

But it pales in comparison to M87*, Messier 87’s black hole, which has a mass 6.5 billion times that of our sun.

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.

Researchers may have finally figured out how fast-spinning black holes lose energy in the form of enormous energy jets after taking a closer look at the supermassive black hole M87*.

The fact supermassive black holes eat everything around them, including light, makes them very difficult to study. The black hole at the centre of Messier 87 (M87) was the first to be photographed.

Spinning: The discovery was made by studying powerful jets of energy beamed from the first black hole ever imaged by humanity, which sits at the heart of the neighbouring Messier 87 galaxy.

The supermassive black hole is at the centre the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy which is 55 million light years from Earth and is positioned next to our own Milky Way galaxy.

It has recently been determined that the historic black hole Messier 87 Galaxy is spinning. This black hole gained notoriety in 2019 when it was the first void to be seen and showed a fuzzy orange ...