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

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

Astronomers studying elusive supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies are intrigued not only by the cosmic behemoths themselves but also by the colossal jets they launch into space at ...

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Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

Jan. 13, 2025 — The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are ...

Event Horizon Telescope reveals why our galaxy's black hole is spinning so weirdly The Milky Way and the location of its central black hole as viewed from the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...