NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan about the James Webb Space Telescope's recent discovery of two distant black holes colliding. The James Webb Space ...

A black hole blast erupts from the nearby Centaurus A galaxy, seen in this Chandra X-ray Observatory image released on February 6. The x-ray jets shoot out from the poles of the "supermassive ...

Sagittarius A is this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. And in 2022, scientists gave us the first-ever look at that black hole. Those images showed a fuzzy orange ...

The new images, taken one year after the ... The astronomers hope to pin down more properties of the black hole’s plasma, such as its temperature profile and composition. For this, they plan ...

Watch this: How black holes swallow light, warp space-time and blow your mind 06:31 Besides just being cool, seeing the exact ... told reporters that future images can become much sharper as ...

Each of these infinite groups of light rays can form an image (if they hit a camera or an eyeball), so the black hole could produce an infinite number of such images ... a lot of cool details ...

But the black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 1377 is an unusual eater because it boasts a surprisingly cool spout ... how these monsters feed and grow. [Images: Black Holes of the Universe ...

The work ultimately proved thrilling. “What’s more cool than seeing the black hole at the center of our Milky Way?” said team member Katherine Bouman, a computational imaging scientist at ...

Future research should aim for higher-resolution images of the cool gas around black holes, and how this gas interacts with hot gas around black holes, Murchikova said. "We want to find out as ...

Now, you’ve probably seen images of black holes before, either in an astronomy ... Another part of what makes this photo so cool is that its roots date back to Albert Einstein’s Theory of ...