The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope -- a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes -- have ...

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 ...

Some galaxies are elliptical, some are spiral; some are bright, whilst others are blurry; some are small and some are large, but they never start out that way; How galaxies grow from seeds to gardens ...

Astronomers have used the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to reveal a new view of the black hole at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy. The image shows how the black hole looks and polarized ...

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 ...

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 ...