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Surprise! The ring around M87 galaxy’s monster black hole wobbles over time. – Space.com

The Event Horizon Telescope team is learning about the huge black hole’s behavior over the past decade.

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The first black hole
to be imaged directly is giving up even more of its secrets.
In April 2019, scientists with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project unveiled a historic photo of M87*
, the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of the galaxy M87, which lies about 53 million light-years from our own Milky Way.
The stunning image shows the silhouette of M87*, which harbors about the same mass as 6.5 billion suns. (It’s impossible to photograph the interior of a black hole from the…

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