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

Sharper views of black holes are turning what once looked like a fuzzy cosmic icon into a precision tool for testing gravity ...

Black holes have been that elusive, mystifying entity lurking deep in space, fascinating our every waking thought. The scientists would go on speculating about its existence for decades, but it wasn’t ...

Finnish scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic voids come in pairs, per a study published October 9 in the ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The observation confirmed the existence of black hole pairs. In the past, astronomers ...

Astronomers have delivered the first image of two orbiting supermassive black holes. Credit: Mauri J. Valtonen et al. / https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.06744 ...

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"For the first time, we managed to get an image of two black holes circling each other," study first author Mauri Valtonen, an astronomer at the University of Turku in Finland, said in a statement.

WR 124, a rare type of Wolf-Rayet star. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared ...