Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the largest gravitationally ...
"How and where particles are accelerated in the jets of supermassive black holes has been a long-standing mystery." ...
A powerful gamma-ray flare from the M87* black hole challenges current understanding of particle acceleration near black holes.
I love it when researchers observe an extra-weird particle, and this week, scientists reported the observation of a particle ...
The jet emerging from M87’s supermassive black hole is tens of millions of times larger than its event horizon. In 2019, the ...
Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...
Light curve of the gamma-ray flare (bottom) and collection of quasi-simulated images of the M87 jet (top) at various scales ...