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

Horizons are weird. They delimit what we can see in the distance, but they are also always personal: Walk 10 miles to the west and your horizon line moves 10 miles to the west with you. Remarkably, ...

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

New data reveals black hole jets can accelerate at speeds defying all physical laws, leaving astronomers without a clear ...

Black Holes 'Artificial intelligence is not a miracle cure': Nobel laureate raises questions about AI-generated image of black hole spinning at the heart of our galaxy Black Holes Colossal black hole ...

Astronomers were baffled after they observed a mid-infrared flame from the central black hole of the Milky Way. It lasted for nearly an hour, which led scientists to new clues on how the outbursts ...

In 2017, the EHT collaboration yielded the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 ...

The Event Horizon Explorer would build on the work of the Event Horizon Telescope, which famously visualized a black hole in 2019. reading time 3 minutes Astronomers transfixed the public in April ...

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Deep-space image showing four orange blobs — different representations of an outburst from a supermassive black hole. . Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole in Earth's cosmic backyard ...

Physicist Carlo Rovelli is unique among modern scientists who write for popular audiences in his ability to capture the purest essence of his... Horizons are weird. They delimit what we can see in the ...