It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the supermassive black hole M87* aren't pretty.
That is what astronomers discovered when assessing turbulence in the stream of matter, or "accretion flow," feeding the supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years from Earth at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87). The team was also able to determine that the axis around which M87* rotates points away from Earth.
