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A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole.

Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method ...

A major goal is to image its photon ring (simulated at right). The EHT created the two existing images of M87’s black hole via interferometry — specifically, very long-baseline interferometry.

A large glowing orange and red ring next to ... out for tens of light-years beyond their host galaxy. These outflows eventually slam into gas farther out from their black hole source located ...

There are large black holes at the center of just about every major galaxy, including our own. In 2022, an image was released ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

which is 55 million light years from Earth. More precisely, a picture of glowing gas that surrounds the black hole like a ring. From Earth, the ring appears to be only as large as a concert spotlight ...

Because nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole ... the fabric of spacetime, making it ring like a bell. As the newly merged black hole settles into a more stable equilibrium, it twists ...

Some black holes spew infalling matter out again, forming gigantic, near-light-speed plasma jets that can extend for hundreds of light-years. But one black hole jet pair astronomers spotted ...

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments.

Now, this same black hole is once again captivating scientists with an extraordinary gamma-ray flare that's emitted photons hundreds of billions of times more powerful than visible light. This intense ...