Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

More news: The photos we saw this week were taken two years ago, in April 2017. Since then, astronomers also had a more recent photo shoot of both black holes in 2018, which included an additional ...

Black holes are so massive they warp space and time and allow no light to escape. Even though a black hole itself is not visible directly, the photos confirmed expectations it would be surrounded ...

Specifically, polarization allows astronomers to map the magnetic field lines present at the inner edge of the black hole. In April 2019, scientists released the first ever image of a black hole ...

Researchers generated over 30,000 simulated images of black holes, covering a wide range of possibilities, and then looked for common patterns within those images.

In April 2017, scientists used a global network of telescopes to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole, according to an announcement by researchers at the National Science ...

And in 2022, scientists gave us the first-ever look at that black hole. Those images showed a fuzzy orange blob encircling a dark center, kind of like an orange donut. Yummy.

Don Lincoln writes that the image of a black hole looks like a ring of light with a shadow in the middle because of fast-moving heated gas that glows and emits electromagnetic radiation.

Eventually, the first real-life picture of a black hole comes into focus. Watch this: How the heck do you take a photo of a black hole? (The 3:59, Ep. 542) ...

The central dark area surrounds the event horizon — the point of no return, inside of which is the “black” part of the black hole. As pictured, the dark space is about 2.5 times greater in ...

Scientists have predicted what the first-ever direct images of black holes will look like, and found that they will resemble crescent shapes more than the blobs that were previously predicted.