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OVER the past decade, spacecraft have beamed back reports from some truly awe-inspiring destinations within our solar system. Rovers have revealed vast river channels carved by ancient floods on Mars. Probes have zipped through the turbulent geysers erupting from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. We have even flown past the frigid mountains of Pluto. But what […]
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The Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A* Abhishek Joshi / UIUC Black holes keep their secrets close. They imprison forever anything that enters. Light itself can’t escape a black hole’s hungry pull. It would seem, then, that a black hole should be invisible — and taking its picture impossible. So great fanfare accompanied the release […]
Research Box Title Astronomers estimate that 100 million black holes roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy, but they have never conclusively identified an isolated black hole. Following six years of meticulous observations, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has, for the first time ever, provided direct evidence for a lone black hole drifting through […]
ANN ARBOR, MI – How do you take a picture of something invisible? The invisible object in question is a black hole, or cosmic entity that consists of highly intense gravity that prevents light from escaping. It’s very nature prevents imaging, as no light escaping means no radiation to detect via long-range sensors. This is […]
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, an international collaboration aimed at gathering direct images of black holes, has now set its sights close to home. In a May 12 announcement, EHT researchers presented the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Earth’s home galaxy. The announcement […]
Astronomers in seven countries on Thursday unveiled an image of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy that devours any matter wandering within its gravitational pull. Sagittarius A* is only the second black hole to be imaged by astronomers. The feat was accomplished by the international Event Horizon Telescope team, […]
Astronomers on Thursday gave the world its first glimpse of a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy, a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet, despite a gravitational force so powerful it bends space and time, surrounding the abyss with a bright ring of light. The colorized image released Thursday is the first direct […]
Katie Bouman, an assistant professor at Caltech University, on May 12, 2022 at a press conference in Washington, DC, to reveal the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. At just 33 years old, Caltech assistant professor Katie Bouman is already a veteran of two major scientific discoveries. The expert […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their center, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely […]
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