Black holes grow in two ways. They accrete matter over time, and they merge. Astrophysicists believe that it takes a galaxy ...

The origins of aptly named supermassive black holes—which can weigh in at more than a million times the mass of the sun and ...

Researchers from the Nevada Center for Astrophysics at UNLV (NCfA) have found strong evidence in a study published in Nature ...

Want a clear view of a supermassive black hole's environment? It's an incredible observational challenge. The extreme gravity ...

The EHT Collaboration released images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy, in 2019, and of Sgr A*, the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, in 2022.

Supermassive black holes, celestial objects with masses greater than a million times that of the Sun, remain one of the ...

EHT researchers are already analyzing data from Sgr A* and M87 at the new frequencies that could be released within the next year. In addition, new observatories may be added to the telescope to ...

For Sgr A*, we'd only have to wait one night. In one evening, you'd see many orbits of matter and light around the black hole. But for that to work, the EHT would need a lot more telescopes.

EHT, D. Pesce, A. Chael "With the EHT ... These black holes—M87* and Sgr A*—are supermassive black holes found at the center of galaxies. These black holes are incredibly dense regions ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted test ... images of supermassive black holes at the hearts of M87 and Sgr A at the lower frequency of 230 GHz, these new results ...

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6 in the journal Nature Astronomy, builds on recent observations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which captured the first direct image of Sgr A* in 2022. The EHT, the result of a global ...