"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, ...
A trio of Japanese astronomers has challenged the accuracy of the first-ever image showing the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy. If confirmed, the findings of the ...
Reuters The first ever photo of a black hole, taken using a global network of telescopes No single telescope is powerful enough to capture the black hole, so a network of eight was set up to so do ...
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...
Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...
The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's ...
While looking at optical images of V404 Cygni, Burdge saw what looked like two blobs of light that were close to one another. The first blob was the black hole and an inner star orbiting close by.
The first moving images of a black hole could reveal swirls of plasma and collapsing stars, deepening our understanding of ...
As the team examined optical images of V404 Cygni, they saw what appeared to be two blobs of light, surprisingly close together. The first blob was what others determined to be the black hole and ...
Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...
Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple ... When he pulled up some images of the black hole, he said he was surprised when he noticed the second blob ...
In the constellation of Cygnus, some 7,800 light-years from Earth, lurks a real space oddity. There, a black hole in a system named V404 Cygni repeatedly engages in behavior that has ...