It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the supermassive black hole M87* aren't pretty. That is what astronomers discovered when assessing turbulence in ...

Left: EHT images of M87* from the 2018 and 2017 observation campaigns. Middle: Example images from a general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation at two different times. Right ...

Caption Light curve of the gamma-ray flare (bottom) and collection of quasi-simulated images of the M87 jet (top) at various scales obtained in radio and X-ray during the 2018 campaign. The ...

But when you zoom in, you can see that they are galaxies ... The most famous elliptical galaxy is M87, which has up to 2.4 trillion stars. Astronomers recently used a combination of special ...