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

The Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) near Sutherland is celebrating 20 years of observing the night sky.

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Rybicki, M. (2025) Black Hole as a Topological Hole in the Fabric of Spacetime. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 1799-1817. doi ...

Area residents are invited to a “star party”—a telescope viewing of the night sky—on Monday, December 1 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m ...

The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black hole’s shadow.

Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes at the center of the galaxy M87 and our Milky Way, published a few years ...

It's safe to say Event Horizon: Dark Descent has been a big hit for IDW Publishing. The first two chapters of the series (which serves as a prequel to the 1997 horror movie) are both going back to ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they had a cosmic oddity on their hands. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showed a ...