
Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet
The jet blasting out of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87 Jan Röder; Maciek Wielgus et al. (2025) More than a century ago, astronomer Heber Curtis spotted the first black hole jet – a vast stream of superheated plasma from the supermassive behemoth that sits at the centre of galaxy M87….