A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions ...

Seen from Earth, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is just a two-dimensional blob ... Yet, a new, highly detailed analysis of the motion of stars around its central supermassive black hole ...

Related: Black holes of the universe (images) The team created the new 3D plot of M87 by measuring the motion of stars around its central supermassive black hole, known as M87*, which made history ...

Seen from Earth, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is just a two-dimensional blob, though one that appears perfectly symmetrical and thus a favored target of amateur astronomers. Yet, a new, highly ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 exhibits rotational behavior, akin to the wobbling motion of a spinning top. A newly published study in Nature provides confirmation that ...

The Orientation of M87* And Its Spinning Jets The bright ring in the EHT images is not uniform; one side appears brighter due ...

“M87 is about two thousand times farther away ... that mass estimate is much larger than the number derived from the motion of orbiting gas, which is the easier, more commonly used technique ...

Astronomers today unveiled new images of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, showing both a fluffier version of the black hole's glowing ring and its powerful jet together in the same ...

The M87 black hole appeared as a flaming, fuzzy doughnut-like object emerging from a dark backdrop – but now we have a sharper look. The new image, published Thursday in a Astrophysical ...

Tilted accretion disc model Artist’s impression of the black hole at the centre of M87, showing how the accretion disc and jet are misaligned with the rotational axis of the black hole. (Courtesy: ...

The new image, they say, will sharpen constraints on how well the black hole in M87 fits with Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which first predicted the existence of black holes.

Because the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to employ stereoscopic vision, they instead followed the motion of stars around the center of M87, like bees around a hive. This created a three ...