New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

The M87* black hole exhibits chaotic gas flow and plasma ring dynamics, offering new insights into black hole physics.

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019. It was notable for its bright golden ring, ...

Advertisement Charles Messier ... 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest in the world. He began taking photographic plates of the spiral nebulae. These glass plates recorded images of the ...