Tag: M87

• How did the biggest black holes form?

  The most massive known object in the cosmos is the black hole at the center of M87, a huge galaxy in the Virgo Cluster. While most large galaxies (including the Milky Way) harbor supermassive black holes, the very largest are interesting. That’s because galaxies and their black holes seem to share a history, based on…

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 25, 2014

  Nautilus, Writing for Other Sites

  black holes, galaxies, gravitational waves, M87, supermassive black holes

• High-resolution image of supermassive black hole shows engine of destruction

  A collection of four big telescopes in Arizona, California, and Hawaii have banded together to examine one of the biggest black holes we know: the beast at the heart of the galaxy M87. What they found: the disk of gas driving M87’s huge jet rotates the same direction as the black hole that made it.…

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 27, 2012

  Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  astronomy, black holes, ergosphere, event horizon, M87