Want to hunt for black holes, but lack access to a mountaintop observatory or deep-space telescope?There’s an app for that—and you can help out astronomers by using it. Developed by the Dutch ...

An explosive flare from the Milky Way's central black hole has been translated from 'a single flickering pixel' into a detailed 3D model using AI and Einstein's general relativity equations.

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Scientists have created a new version of a historic black hole image that was first unveiled back in 2019. The central black nothingness now looks larger and darker.

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

D9 is the first star pair ever found near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This image shows an emission line of hydrogen mapped by the SINFONI instrument ...

Astronomers recently used artificial intelligence to fine-tune the first-ever image of a black hole, captured in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope. By Dennis Overbye Four years ago, astronomers ...

I study black holes. We see them in the sky today, ... It is the source of all true art and science.” And black holes are among the greatest scientific mysteries of our universe.

When astronomers showed the world their first look at a supermassive black hole in 2019, the image was likened to a flaming space doughnut.. But the team has released a new sharper image of the ...

An explosive flare from the Milky Way's central black hole has been translated from 'a single flickering pixel' into a detailed 3D model using AI and Einstein's general relativity equations.

New image of M87 supermassive black hole generated by the PRIMO algorithm using 2017 EHT data Medeiros et al. 2023 That band is a "bright ring of emission" that, according to IAS, is ...

First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...