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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...