Feast your eyes on a valley of fine art: colorful lights, surprising sculptures, and thought-provoking paintings and ...

Think of it like the range finder you would use to measure how far away the hole is from your current position at a golf ... DeGraff collected these maps into a book called Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

The first image of M87* — and humanity's first image of any black hole, for that matter — was taken by the EHT in 2017 and released to the public in 2019. It was notable for its bright golden ring, ...

Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, ...

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

A Love Story, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers, this summer. Written by scholar ...

Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...