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The ‘fuzzy’ photo of the black hole could soon be sharp as a knife
The satellites would have telescopes on board and since all of this is up in space — the t…
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Artificial intelligence may have just given astronomers a better idea of what black holes really look like
A machine learning algorithm created by researchers seems to have provided a clearer image of the M…
Aaron McDade
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This new photo of a supermassive black hole is unlike any before, showing powerful magnetic fields spiraling around it
A new photo of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole taken from the Event Horizon Telescope shows…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Black hole image supports Einstein's theory of gravity, disappointing scientists who are probing for cracks
Researchers captured the first image of our galaxy's supermassive black hole. It could help confirm…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The movie 'Interstellar' came out exactly 5 years ago. Since then, new discoveries have changed our understanding of black holes.
In the movie "Interstellar," a fictional black hole called Gargantua takes center stage. The film c…
Aylin Woodward
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Images show what it's like to fall into a black hole
But not just any black hole — a supermassive black hole with 4.3 million times the mass of our sun.…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig
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Scientists capture first direct image of a supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion times the size of the sun, spewing out jets of plasma
Astronomers hope the discovery will help us understand exactly how these jets are created — s…
Marianne Guenot
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Stephen Hawking's daughter says her father would have been 'blown away' by the first ever image of a black hole
Stephen Hawking contributed revolutionary theories to the study of black holes. One of his most fam…
Beatrice Christofaro,Beatrice…
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Here's how astronomers took the first image of a black hole that's located 55 million light years away
It's about 6.5 billion times as massive as our Sun - that's enormous even compared to other superma…
Jessica Orwig,David Anderson
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Scientists spotted jets of hot gas whizzing out of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy
Authors of a new study reveal how they imaged plasma jets shooting out of a black hole nestled insi…
Aylin Woodward
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A mesmerizing photo shows powerful magnetic fields swirling around a black hole
The image illustrates that magnetic fields are strong enough to prevent some matter from getting su…
Aria Bendix
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We just got the first-ever photograph of a black hole 3 million times the size of earth. Some people think it looks like a 'smudge on the lens.'
Researchers from 40 nations spent around 13 years capturing the image of the black hole, which is 6…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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Meet the black hole at the center of our galaxy: Scientists just took its picture for the first time
Researchers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of our gal…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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A pair of supermassive black holes are stuck in a collision between galaxies. Astronomers caught the chaos on camera.
"This galaxy is so complex that we could never know what is going on inside it without these detail…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.
JWST will study every phase of the universe's history in order to learn about how the first stars a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The scientists who photographed a supermassive black hole for the first time just won a $3 million prize. Here's their groundbreaking image.
"As a cloud of gas gets closer to the black hole, they speed up and heat up," Josephine Peters, an …