In 1994, Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 captured an image of an object at the center of M87, a giant elliptical galaxy 50 million light-years away. Though the object was as heavy as 3 ...

Scientists had thought they existed but didn't have any proof for it, until Hubble spotted one in 1994. The sight of the heart of giant galaxy M87 with Hubble's Faint Object Camera was the first ...

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of massive galaxies like our own Milky Way. These ginormous cosmic beasts ...

Taken in 1995, the Hubble Deep Field image was taken over the ... It depicted a supermassive black hole in the centre of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy. While scientists had theorised the black ...

Here the skywatcher will find galaxies galore like Messier object 49, M59, M60, M84, M87 and NGC 5846 ... but you need Hubble Space Telescope’s long exposure imaging to observe it.

M87*, the supermassive black hole in Messier ... down to tameable mechanical animals — called “Mec... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the New Horizons spacecraft teamed up for a unique ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most scientifically productive instruments in history. From its vantage point 320 miles ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbours, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...