Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
The black hole appears far too massive for its host galaxy, placing it in a rare category of “overmassive” black holes.
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.
Your first major opportunity to spot shooting stars and bright fireballs in 2026 arrives overnight tonight with the peak of ...
A UK-based research project, TomoGrav, will produce the first 3D movies of black holes, mapping plasma flows and gravity in real time using advanced AI and global telescope networks.
Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...
A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...
On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...
Scientists are developing new methods to turn black hole images into time-resolved 3D movies, revealing how plasma, jets, and gravity behave near event horizons ...
In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...