The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019. It was notable for its bright golden ring, ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released new findings regarding the supermassive black hole M87* based on ...

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration" according to the European Southern Observatory. The ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

There’s a Universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Infrared observations help astronomers uncover hundreds of obscured supermassive black holes, reshaping cosmic understanding.