The image is a close-up of the region surrounding a supermassive black hole that lies at the centre of the Messier 87 galaxy, which is about 55 million light-years away. Although black holes are ...

Although the M87 black hole’s event horizon has never been seen before, the Hubble Space Telescope has imaged enormous jets of high-energy particles shooting away from its vicinity at 2 million ...

This year's campaign marks the second consecutive year of observations after two years on hiatus for the Event Horizon Telescope. "2019 was cancelled for operational reasons, and 2020 was canceled ...

Event Horizon Telescope project leader Shep Doeleman on the red carpet before the Breakthrough Prize ceremony at NASA's ... His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published ...

A new book demystifies black holes and explores what we still don't know about them. ... Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al. It was cold on the Russian front that day in 1915.

At precisely 13:00 Universal Time on Wednesday – 9 a.m. in the Eastern United States – scientists will hold simultaneous news conferences in Washington, D.C., Belgium, Denmark, Chile, J… ...

The 30-Meter Telescope, on the Pico Veleta mountain in Spain, is part of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. IRAM,K.Zacher Experiencing the first image of a black hole ...

Unbeknownst to many, the black holes we’ve been seeing in books are not actual images but are instead just visual representations of the real thing.

A professor of astroparticle physics and radio astronomy at Radboud University in the Netherlands, Falcke is one of the leads of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global network of telescopes ...

The Event Horizon Telescope has looked at two supermassive black holes: Sag A* and the one in M87 (for Messier 87, named for the astronomer who catalogued galaxies in the night sky before anyone ...

In 2009, Dr. Doeleman and his colleagues formed the Event Horizon Telescope, named after the point of no return around a black hole. Today, the collaborative project employs 11 different radio ...

Astronomers recently used artificial intelligence to fine-tune the first-ever image of a black hole, captured in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope. By Dennis Overbye Four years ago, astronomers ...