This is what EHT scientists captured in their groundbreaking image. "As a cloud of gas gets closer to the black hole, they speed up and heat up," Josephine Peters, an astrophysicist at the ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

The monster black hole lurking at the centre of our galaxy has been captured in stunning new detail by astronomers – and it’s giving off major Lord Of The Rings vibes. The new image from the ...

In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

(Courtesy: Ilje Cho) New statistical analyses of the supermassive black hole M87* may explain changes observed since it was first imaged. The findings, from the same Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, has about 4.3 million times the mass of our Sun. In May 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration released the first direct image ...

a more compact and sharper view of the supermassive black holes, followed by 230 GHz in green, and 86 GHz in red. The higher the frequency, the sharper the image becomes, revealing structure ...

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The latest achievement was the team’s second since April 2019, when it released the first image of a black hole from the Messier 87 galaxy, which is about 55 million light years from Earth.