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

The iconic 2019 image of a supermassive black hole that has since been dubbed the "orange donut" has gotten a makeover. Scientists unveiled the sharpest-ever image of the blackhole on Thursday ...

Where the light ends at the center of the image is the point-of-no-return, called the "event horizon." That's the final boundary between space and the black hole. In the orange-colored accretion ...

The black hole at the center of our galaxy has been compared to a doughnut — and as it turns out, this doughnut has swirls. Scientists shared a mesmerizing new image on Wednesday, showing ...

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

It offers a new view of that supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our own Milky Way. The swirling image shows the magnetic field structure around the black hole and suggests that it ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The iconic image of a supermassive black hole in the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy—described by astronomers as a "fuzzy orange donut"—was a stunning testament to the capabilities of the Event ...

Stretched around the globe from the South Pole to Hawaii and Europe, the “virtual” telescope aimed to capture an image of the supermassive black hole residing at the center of the galaxy M87.

Humanity's first image of a black hole has gotten a makeover. The iconic picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a giant galaxy sitting 53 million light-years from ...