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

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

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a fleeting, spectral flash from the Milky Way’s central black hole, a signal that ...

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

We sat down with the experts who captured the first images of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the black hole at the core of our galaxy. Here's what we learned. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

Supermassive black holes have some of the most voracious appetites in the universe, so astronomers at the University of Arizona and elsewhere can be forgiven for staring at one of them while it eats.

Each site in the telescope received four of these data recording units; at the end of the observations, they were shipped to one of two data processing centers—in total, a half a tonne of hard drives ...