Keep in mind, M87’s black hole is between about 3 and 7 billion times the mass of the Sun, or about 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A*. That’s a lot of ...

The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and was the ideal first target for the Event Horizon Telescope. Scientists ...

An image of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87 (inset) and a powerful jet of matter and energy being projected away from it. R.-S. Lu (SHAO) and E. Ros (MPIfR), S.Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF) ...

The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87 has gotten its first official makeover based on a new machine learning technique called PRIMO. The team used the data achieved ...

If M87’s black hole had been a wormhole, theory predicts it should look smaller than it does. “It’s a stunning confirmation” of general relativity, Johnson said.

This new, sharper image of the M87 supermassive black hole was generated by the PRIMO algorithm using 2017 EHT data. Credit: Medeiros et al. 2023 ...

The EHT needed that impressive resolution to capture its first target, the black hole sitting in the center of the galaxy M87, almost 54 million light-years away, in April 2017.

When the image of the M87 supermassive black hole (M87*), which is 55 million light-years from Earth and has a mass equivalent to six and a half billion suns, was first revealed, ...

M87*, as the black hole is formally known, is a whopping 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun, and its jet—a 4,000-light-year-long stream of plasma spewing from the object at nearly the speed ...

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 ...

The image of the M87 supermassive black hole originally published by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration in 2019 (left); and a new image generated by the PRIMO algorithm using the same data ...