To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture the size of the Earth. One participating EHT telescope, highlighted here, is ...

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Black holes may seem like interstellar enigmas, but they hold some key lessons on how to move through the universe.

By looking at radio waves and X-ray emissions, a team of physicists has found the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* to be spinning— and altering space-time around it.

A surprising discovery about the black hole V404 Cygnus is expanding our understanding of black holes, the objects they can host, and the way they form.

There are three types of black holes, all born in different ways. But even the largest black holes can’t dominate the rotation of a galaxy.

This is an artistic rendering of a black hole accumulating matter at the center of a galaxy.

Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable.

Astronomers recently used artificial intelligence to fine-tune the first-ever image of a black hole, captured in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find that a black hole was consuming matter 40 times faster than thought possible.

It's the first time a "dormant" black hole has been unambiguously detected outside the Milky Way, the researchers say.