"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

Here's a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team led by Anne-Kathrin Baczko ...

screaming away from another black hole at near light-speed. The scene was actually in the "background" of the original target. The scientists who operate the Event Horizon Telescope describe the ...

In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some ...