Astronomers recently used artificial intelligence to fine-tune the first-ever image of a black hole, captured in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope. By Dennis Overbye Four years ago, astronomers ...

No light or matter can escape from inside a black hole. However, dust and gas that is pulled towards the edge, or ‘event horizon’, of the black hole can heat up and emit electromagnetic radiation.

An elusive type of black hole has been discovered in a neighboring galaxy for the first time, according to a new study based on observations from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s ...

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.

The first image of a black hole wowed the world in 2019. Fresh data could now help to explain what exactly radio astronomers were looking at — including details of the maelstrom it creates. And ...

The first picture image of the black hole at in the M87 galaxy was released in 2019. Thanks to machine-learning tech, we now have a clearer look. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

For three years, telescopes have monitored “one of the most luminous” events ever: a supermassive black hole consuming a gigantic cloud of interstellar gas. By Dennis Overbye It’s a dog-eat ...

ChatGPT's new logo, a black dot, is neutral and versatile — adding new capabilities and iconography to indicate its activity is simple. ... To that end, the new interface is a dot, or hole, ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

But the black hole in VFTS 243 appears to have collapsed without exploding at all. A curiosity, but not without precedent. "In the last 10 years or so, ...

Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of the oldest black hole ever seen, a 13-billion-year-old object that's actually "eating" its host galaxy to death. Astronomers made the discovery ...

Astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains years after it shredded and consumed the star. In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a ...