24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
...showing magnetic field lines around the same enormous object, M87; this is the first time astronomers have been able... Working Group. The team plan on completing further observations of M87 using the EHT to reveal its magnetic field structure with more...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
...the data, the guzzling gravitational giant at the centre of M87 – a galaxy 500 billion billion kilometres away from Earth –...of the direction of rotation, which is clockwise.” The analysis of M87 – a black hole with one of the highest known masses for ...
23 January 2017
New results from HST show relativistic jets on scales rarely seen before
...to other recent HST observations of lower-power optical jets M87 and 3C264, where highly superluminal speeds (6−7c) have been ...relativistic, or because the knot features in sources such as M87/3C 264 and 3C 273 represent very different things: moving ...
