
How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy’s Black Hole
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.
It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.
The historic image of Sagittarius A* is the culmination of a decades-long astronomical quest—and a crucial step toward a new understanding of black holes, gravity and spacetime...
Revisiting a controversial claim, astronomers are laying bare deep uncertainties about our understanding of galactic centers
A recently spotted bright light in the sky is improving astronomers’ understanding of stellar death
The $25-million facility in Namibia will be the continent’s first millimeter-range astronomical observatory
Weighing in at seven times the mass of our sun, the dark object is by far the best-yet candidate for a free-floating stellar-mass black hole
Subtle signals from black hole mergers might confirm the existence of “Hawking radiation”—and gravitational-wave detectors may have already seen them
Recent work has shown how “naked singularities” might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture
In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes.
New research shows that there are problems even quantum computers might never be able to solve
At long last, the definitive discovery completes a trifecta of astrophysical events that were forecast by gravitational-wave astronomers
If such an object a mere 1,000 times bigger than an atom passed through your body, the result would not be pretty
Images from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal new details of how supermassive black holes produce huge jets of matter and energy
Recent results from a pulsar timing array, which uses dead stars to hunt for gravitational waves, has scientists speculating about cosmic strings and primordial black holes
Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos’s history
Half the award goes to Roger Penrose, with the rest split between Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, for work revealing the “darkest secrets of the universe”...
Pictures created from old observations show the void’s stormy evolution over the past decade
A much smaller and more reproducible version of LIGO could transform gravitational-wave astronomy
An unprecedented signal from unevenly sized objects gives astronomers rare insight into how black holes spin
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