The famous black hole M87 keeps surprising us. New research calculates its spin speed to be at 80% of the theoretical limit, with matter falling into its maw even faster.

The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and was the ideal first target for the Event Horizon Telescope. Scientists ...

Using these measurements, they estimated that M87's black hole is consuming somewhere between 0.00004 to 0.4 solar masses worth of material every year. That might sound like a lot, but it's ...

(Image: NASA) Looking into the heart of galaxy M87 feels like staring into a cosmic engine. A black hole, unimaginably large and powerful, sits at its centre, spinning at furious speed.

From this, they calculated M87*’s spin parameter, a measure of how fast a black hole is rotating. The result: 0.8 on a scale from 0 to 1, with 1 being the theoretical maximum.

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.

The black holes in your home Typically, black holes form when a star with a lot of mass collapses in on itself until it forms an ultra-dense point known as a singularity.

NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected one of the most powerful black hole jets ever observed. The jets were emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away from the earth. This jet ...

Monster black hole M87 is spinning at 80% of the cosmic speed limit — and pulling in matter even faster Newly 'awakened' black hole is releasing 100 times more energy than scientists have seen ...

The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning at near "top speed," according to a new artificial intelligence (AI) model. The model, trained partially on complex telescope data ...