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

At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

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

Recent advancements in observational techniques have led to the capture of high-resolution images of black hole shadows, ...

Learn more about the images advanced telescopes could take of black holes and how they could back up Einstein’s general ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most advanced telescope ever constructed, designed for operation in deep space, approximately 1.5 million miles from Earth. The orbital observatory ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other object—a result that explained falling ...

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 ...

Astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole 25,640 light years away, at the center of our own galaxy earlier today in a special edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.