Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the largest gravitationally ...

Astronomers observe unexpected gamma-ray eruption from supermassive black hole M87*. Discover the latest insights into black ...

Light curve of the gamma-ray flare (bottom) and collection of quasi-simulated images of the M87 jet (top) at various scales ...

Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the largest gravitationally ...

Scientists have observed a rare and powerful gamma-ray flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy ...

The jet emerging from M87’s supermassive black hole is tens of millions of times larger than its event horizon. In 2019, the ...

A new article published in Universe describes an approach that looks back from the deaths of stars to their births, allowing ...

The Event Horizon Telescope, which captured the first image of a black hole, has done it again. The Earth-sized telescope ...

Caption Scientists have measured the size of magnetic field patches in a gamma-ray burst jet for the first time by observing polarized radio waves. Individual patches of ordered magnetic fields in ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...