The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's true structure. Reading time 2 minutes A team of researchers from Japan’s ...

The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 has received its first official makeover, thanks to a new machine-learning technique known as PRIMO. This new image better ...

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Scientists have revealed an astonishing new image of the black hole in the middle of our galaxy. The object – known as Sagittarius A* – is shown in polarised light for the first time, in a profound ...

Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive flare-ups in the disk of gas around our supermassive ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed, in the same image, the shadow of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet expelled from it. The observations were ...

A team of astronomers has captured yet another incredible image of Sagittarius A* — often shortened to Sgr A* — which is the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy. The team used ...