The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

Astronomers detect an ultramassive black hole weighing 36 billion suns in the galaxy LRG 3-757, a record thanks to ...

Astronomers have found a remarkably powerful jet shooting out from a black hole that formed just 3 billion years after the ...

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

The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

Simulated image of the supermassive black hole in M87 seen at multiple frequencies. | Credit: EHT, D. Pesce, A. Chael, CC BY 4.0 Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope have developed a new ...

This sharper view opens the door to new discoveries. Back in 2019, the same network captured the first direct image of a black hole at a lower frequency. While those images were revolutionary ...

Each additional orbit forms an exponentially thinner ring around the black hole, creating a visual cascade of images. This insight not only deepens our understanding of gravitational lensing but ...

Best Evidence to Date of 'Missing Links' in Black Hole Evolution Uncovered by Experts A team of researchers may have finally ...

bring it close enough to merge with the black hole at the core. Erica Hammerstein, another UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher, scrutinized the Hubble images as part of the study, but was unable ...

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are classically stable, but as shown by Stephen Hawking in 1975, they can evaporate via quantum effects, radiating nearly like a blackbody.Thus, they have a lifetime ...

Like a bear gorging ... Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets ...