TBIRD, a laser communications system developed by Lincoln Laboratory, transmits data at unprecedented speeds, enabling scientists to capture black holes' elusive photon rings. The Event Horizon ...

There are even discussions about a $300 million “Event Horizon Explorer,” a space-based telescope that could one day give us ...

Black holes have long captivated scientists and the public, embodying the mysteries of the universe. These celestial ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...

Scientists observed M87’s first gamma-ray flare in a decade, revealing insights into its supermassive black hole and ...

Along the way, viewers witness the surreal dance of an accretion disk — a swirling mass of hot gas — and photon rings, hauntingly beautiful structures born from light orbiting the black hole.

A Cosmic Movie Camera is an infinite light trap or the photon ring around a black hole. What at first appears to be one ring is in fact many, which become increasingly thinner as they become smaller ...

showed a dusty ring of material at the heart of NGC 5084, turning on its side. This indicated not only a black hole lurking at the center of this galaxy but that object was bizarrely rotated at a ...