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 ...

The galaxy Messier 87 has quite an appetite. New observations by astronomers at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutes have revealed that the giant elliptical galaxy ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This wide-field image of the galaxy M87 was taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The top inset shows a close-up of two shockwaves, created by a jet emanating from the galaxy’s supermassive black ...

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 ...