Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Here's a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of ...

Joseph A. Leist | Hamilton, New Jersey It’s true, no light can escape a black hole’s “event horizon,” or boundary, says Avi Loeb, a theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

The Event Horizon Telescope project plans to reveal the first-ever images of a black hole, and the international ... ll be holding press conferences in multiple languages simultaneously all ...