On May 12th, astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration unveiled an image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole,” Sheperd Doeleman, EHT Director and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said April 10 in ...

The Event Horizon Telescope was designed to give us the best images yet of the base of the jets by showing how they're related to the other structures near the black hole.

Within that photon orbit is the event horizon, the region beyond which no light can escape. The size and shape of this black hole, the researchers say, is exactly as predicted in Einstein’s ...

Scientists on Wednesday published the first picture of a black hole, which was put together using the Event Horizon Telescope.; The radio-wave photo shows a supermassive black hole, its event ...

A new study provides the composite picture of the environmental distribution of oil and gas from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It amasses a vast collection of available ...

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity captured this image looking eastward over the Endeavour Crater late in the afternoon of Opportunity's 2,888th Martian sol (day) which corresponded with March 9, 2012 ...

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "on the horizon". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world. Ian Hummer: "Walking through ...

Seth Fletcher is chief features editor at Scientific American.His book Einstein's Shadow (Ecco, 2018), on the Event Horizon Telescope and the quest to take the first picture of a black hole, was ...

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano ...