Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new way to observe the radio sky at multiple frequencies, and ...

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of ...

A newly analyzed radio image reveals twin lobes stretching roughly 66,000 light-years on each side of a quasar called ...

Certain molecules absorb ultraviolet light and re-radiate it at wavelengths we can see. Consequently, when exposed to “black lights” (UV light sources with little or no visible light ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a supermassive black hole. Normally, supermassive black holes live at the ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

Scientists in China have developed contact lenses that let wearers see light normally invisible to the human eye.

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...