A powerful gamma-ray flare from the M87* black hole challenges current understanding of particle acceleration near black holes.
Also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, M87 is the brightest object in the Virgo cluster of galaxies, the largest gravitationally ...
M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...
A gamma-ray flare from a black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass leaves scientists stunned.
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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 ...