As M88 heads towards M87 through the intracluster medium, it is being stripped of star-forming gas.

A 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma (superheated gas) shooting out from galaxy M87's supermassive black hole. The M87 galaxy is monstrous. NASA calls this jet "blowtorch-like," and it seems to be ...

A flare-up in a jet of matter blasting from a monster black hole is giving astronomers an incredible light show. The outburst is coming from a blob of matter, called HST-1, embedded in the jet, a ...

A galaxy named Messier 87 (M87) has a monster at its heart that became famous when it was captured in the first-ever image of a black hole. Now, astronomers have revisited M87 and mapped out the ...

This is an artist's concept looking down into the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87. A supermassive black hole ejects a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma, traveling at nearly the speed of ...

Supernovae, the violent explosions that occur when stars die, normally happen sporadically within galaxies. However, by shifting the angle of the Hubble Space Telescope’s line of sight toward M87, ...

A photo of the huge elliptical galaxy M87 [left] is compared to its three-dimensional shape as gleaned from meticulous observations made with the Hubble and Keck telescopes [right]. Because the galaxy ...

Seen from Earth, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is just a two-dimensional blob, though one that appears perfectly symmetrical and thus a favored target of amateur astronomers. Yet, a new, highly ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...