The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With ...

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Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Physicists developed a method to test Einstein’s general relativity precisely where black hole shadow images reveal potential ...

Physicists have taken a new approach to whether all black holes conform to Einstein’s theory of general relativity or if ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Most people think of black holes as giant vacuum cleaners sucking in everything that gets too close. But the supermassive black holes at the ...

In this handout photo provided by the National Science Foundation, the Event Horizon Telescope captures a black hole at the center of galaxy M87 in an image released on April 10, 2019. (Photo by ...