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 ...
Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...
When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...
A galactic jet has been ejected from the only black hole that humans have ever taken an image of, and researchers believe it's shaped like a helix. Messier 87 galactic jet helix structure. According ...
The release of a remarkable image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy isn’t only an incredible scientific achievement — it also agrees precisely with predictions about what black holes are ...
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The giant radio galaxy Messier 87 is located in our immediate "cosmic vicinity", only about 55 million light years away. In the bright outflow of matter from the center of Messier 87, particles are ...
April 13 (UPI) --Researchers at the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab have applied AI technology to the first image ever captured of a black hole to present a clearer image of how gas spirals into ...
A team of researchers, including an astronomer with NSF’s NOIRLab, has developed a new machine-learning technique to enhance the fidelity and sharpness of radio interferometry images. To demonstrate ...
WASHINGTON - Using telescopes worldwide, astronomers have captured the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Meet Sagittarius A*, located more than 27,000 light ...
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 ...
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