Working together as a 'virtual telescope,' observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole: Images reveal supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy.
In a series of papers published today in a special issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters (https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/2041-8205/875/1), the team has revealed four images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of Messier 87, or M87, a galaxy within the Virgo galaxy cluster, 55