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The first-ever picture of a black hole is fuzzy. These incredible illustrations help explain what it shows.
The black hole weighs about as much as 6.5 billion suns, and the shadow of its event horizon - wher…
Dave Mosher
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The first 'groundbreaking' pictures of a black hole may be unveiled on Wednesday. Here's what scientists think those images will look like.
She added: "We can run very high resolution simulations that show a great level of detail, but I'm …
Dave Mosher
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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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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 …
Aria Bendix
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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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'Like looking at the gates of Hell': Astronomers just showed off the first picture of a black hole, and it's a monster
The EHT was seriously challenged in this regard, though. While the telescope is considered to be Ea…
Dave Mosher
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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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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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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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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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How Astronomers Will Take The 'Image Of The Century' - Our First Glimpse Of A Black Hole
Last July, scientists installed the world's most precise atomic clock, costing $250,000, at ALMA's …
Jessica Orwig
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NASA just pulled off humanity's farthest-ever visit to a space object - the New Horizons probe's successfully flew by Ultima Thule
New Horizons pulled off the maneuver on New Year's Day, taking hundreds of photos in a highly chore…
Dave Mosher,Rebecca Harrington
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This video perfectly captures why we are so excited about NASA's mission to Pluto
The National Space Society put together an incredible video preview of the history-making moment. I…
Kelly Dickerson
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The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image of a black hole, a giant squid sighting, and an exoplanet with water vapor
In 2019, scientists around the world pulled off some impressive feats: They imaged a supermassive b…
Aylin Woodward
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Astronomers plan to film the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy as it gobbles up stars and planets. The video could open a 'new field' of science.
"We can see the black hole evolve in real time," Shep Doeleman, an astronomer who leads the global …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Despite a government shutdown, NASA is broadcasting humanity's farthest-ever visit to an object in space. Here's how to watch coverage of the Ultima Thule flyby.
Called Ultima Thule (pronounced "tool-ee"), or 2014 MU69, the object is a total mystery to scientis…
Dave Mosher
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If you're going crazy waiting for the first Pluto flyby photos, here's what they'll look like
Unfortunately, it's going to take 9 months or possibly up to 16 months to send all of that data bac…
Dave Mosher
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Mark Zuckerberg showed his full avatar, which now has legs, in real-time for the first time after Meta was slammed for poor graphics
Adding legs to the new avatars was "probably the most requested feature on our roadmap," Meta CEO M…
Grace Kay,Britney Nguyen
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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…