How scientists created the first ever image of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

How scientists created the first ever image of a black hole

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If you needed to see to believe, then thank the Event Horizon Telescope, which recently produced the first ever direct image of a black hole. The EHT team decided to target two of the closest supermassive black holes to us – both in the large elliptical shaped galaxy, M87, and in Sagittarius A*, at the centre of our Milky Way. open image in gallery In Washington this month, EHT director Sheperd Doeleman reveals the first photograph of a black hole To give a sense of how hard this task is, while the Milky Way’s black hole has a mass of 4.1 million suns and a diameter of 60 million kilometres, it is 250,614,750,218,665,392 kilometres away from Earth – that’s the equivalent of travelling from London to New York 45 trillion times. The Milky Way’s black hole was too challenging to take an accurate image of this time round due to rapid variability in light output.

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Famous picture of black hole in our galaxy might not be accurate, research says
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Famous picture of black hole in our galaxy might not be accurate, research says

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of …

Unexplained structures detected at heart of Milky Way in new James Webb Space Telescope image
1 year, 4 months ago

Unexplained structures detected at heart of Milky Way in new James Webb Space Telescope image

Salon  

A new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope of the deep center of the Milky Way highlights never-before-features that have yet to be scientifically explained. Specifically, JWST narrowed in on the region called Sagittarius C, which is about 300 light-years away from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center. Astronomers say the level of resolution …

Scientists reveal the first ever direct image of a black hole blasting out a powerful jet
1 year, 10 months ago

Scientists reveal the first ever direct image of a black hole blasting out a powerful jet

Daily Mail  

A supermassive black hole and the fierce jet it emits have been imaged together for the first time in an exciting breakthrough that could shed light on the mysteries of the universe. First look: A supermassive black hole and the fierce jet it emits have been imaged together for the first time in an exciting breakthrough that could shed light …

Scientists release improved new image of first black hole ever seen
1 year, 11 months ago

Scientists release improved new image of first black hole ever seen

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. That data was used to create an image of the black hole, which appeared as a “fuzzy, …

First image of a black hole gets a makeover with AI
1 year, 11 months ago

First image of a black hole gets a makeover with AI

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The first image of a …

First image of a black hole looks sharper after AI makeover
1 year, 11 months ago

First image of a black hole looks sharper after AI makeover

LA Times  

Images of the enormous black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in 2019, left, and in 2023. The first image of a black hole captured four years ago revealed a fuzzy, fiery doughnut-shaped object. The image released in 2019 gave a peek at the enormous black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, 53 million light years …

Brilliant ring of light found hiding around supermassive black hole
2 years, 7 months ago

Brilliant ring of light found hiding around supermassive black hole

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In 2019, scientists used the Event Horizon Telescope to create the first-ever image of the supermassive black …

How did first black holes form, looked like? Webb telescope to find clues by going back in time
2 years, 9 months ago

How did first black holes form, looked like? Webb telescope to find clues by going back in time

India Today  

The James Webb Telescope is now at its optimal cooling temperature, its mirrors calibrated and has its targets set. The James Webb Telescope, which aims to study the birth of our universe, the first seconds after the Big Bang, will have its eyes set on these early phenomena, when the first black holes were formed and their evolution over time. …

Scientists to record first video of black hole, already tried making a movie
2 years, 10 months ago

Scientists to record first video of black hole, already tried making a movie

India Today  

The Event Horizon Telescope, a global network of telescopes that comes together every few years to reveal the darkest corner of our universe is setting its eyes on a new mission. While taking snapshots of the black hole is difficult thanks to the massive distance, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is 27,000 …

Watch | What a black hole looks like
2 years, 10 months ago

Watch | What a black hole looks like

The Hindu  

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope facility, a collaboration of over 300 researchers, revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is four million times the mass of our Sun and is 27,000 light years from us. Astronomers have called this “the first direct image of …

The Milky Way’s dark centre - The Hindu
2 years, 10 months ago

The Milky Way’s dark centre - The Hindu

The Hindu  

In 2020, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel were given the Nobel prize for showing that there existed, at the centre of the Milky Way, an extremely heavy, invisible object that pulls masses towards it and causes them to speed up enormously. Using this technique, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration had, in 2019, imaged a region called M87*, the black hole …

How do you photograph a black hole at centre of our galaxy? You make an Earth-sized telescope
2 years, 10 months ago

How do you photograph a black hole at centre of our galaxy? You make an Earth-sized telescope

India Today  

It was in 2019 that the Event Horizon Telescope showed the world what a dark void over 100 times the mass of the Sun looks like. HOW DOES THE EVENT HORIZON TELESCOPE SEE BLACK HOLES? A GLOBAL COLLABORATION The blurred yet revealing image of the black hole at the centre of our own galaxy was made possible by a massive …

Astronomers capture the first-ever image of our own galaxy's supermassive black hole
2 years, 10 months ago

Astronomers capture the first-ever image of our own galaxy's supermassive black hole

Salon  

As one might imagine of a massive, collapsed star within which the laws of physics seemingly break down, black holes occupy a special place in human culture — spurring all kinds of creative science fiction, creative real physics theories, and creative metaphors. RELATED: Astronomers see a big boom when a black hole's magnetic field suddenly flips over "Although we cannot …

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole
2 years, 10 months ago

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The world’s first image of the chaotic supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but what astronomers Thursday called a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet. Black holes gobble up galactic material but Ozel said this one is “eating very little.” It’s the equivalent to a person eating …

Astronomers reveal first image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way galaxy
2 years, 10 months ago

Astronomers reveal first image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way galaxy

The Hindu  

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope facility, a collaboration of over 300 researchers, revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way in press conferences held around the world. In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope made history by releasing the first ever image of a black hole M87* – the black hole at the …

First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed
2 years, 10 months ago

First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed

India TV News  

Highlights Global team of radio astronomers reveals first image of supermassive black hole The supermassive black hole has been found at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy The results are being published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters A global team of radio astronomers have on Thursday unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole …

Scientists get never-before-seen look at supermassive black hole in our galaxy – and find unknown star nearby
3 years, 3 months ago

Scientists get never-before-seen look at supermassive black hole in our galaxy – and find unknown star nearby

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at the supermassive black hole in our …

Was it really a black hole that the EHT imaged in 2019?
3 years, 4 months ago

Was it really a black hole that the EHT imaged in 2019?

The Hindu  

In 2019, astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first ever image of a supermassive black hole which was located at the centre of a galaxy Messier 87. The authors say it is not necessarily a black hole but could even be a “naked singularity with a gravitomagnetic monopole.” When stars much more massive than the Sun reach the …

Astronomers get unprecedented look at nearby galaxy – and see ‘monstrous’ jet launched by supermassive black hole
3 years, 8 months ago

Astronomers get unprecedented look at nearby galaxy – and see ‘monstrous’ jet launched by supermassive black hole

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Astronomers have captured an unprecedented look at nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A, seeing …

Astronomers Release Incredible Image Capturing Light Swirling Around Black Hole
4 years ago

Astronomers Release Incredible Image Capturing Light Swirling Around Black Hole

News 18  

The astronomers who gave the world its first true glimpse of a black hole have produced another landmark image, this time capturing the polarised light swirling around the same star-eating monster’s magnetic fields. “We are now seeing the next crucial piece of evidence to understand how magnetic fields behave around black holes,” said co-author Monika Moscibrodzka, an assistant professor at …

Stunning new image of the first black hole EVER photographed
4 years ago

Stunning new image of the first black hole EVER photographed

Daily Mail  

The supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 has been photographed in polarised light, revealing the magnetic field and its interactions at the edge of this massive stellar phenomenon for the first time. Using the Event Horizon Telescope, an international team of astronomers measured the polarisation - a signature of magnetic fields - close to the edge of …

First ever photo of black hole revealed by astronomers, changing our understanding of the entire universe
5 years, 11 months ago

First ever photo of black hole revealed by astronomers, changing our understanding of the entire universe

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole.” Jessica Dempsey, a co-discoverer from the …

First image of a black hole: Google Doodle celebrates science breakthrough
5 years, 11 months ago

First image of a black hole: Google Doodle celebrates science breakthrough

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. People often assume that falling into a black hole would mean you’d be torn to bits. Those …

Science fact: Astronomers reveal first image of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Science fact: Astronomers reveal first image of a black hole

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Humanity got its first glimpse Wednesday of the cosmic place of no return: a black hole. The image, assembled from data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, shows light and gas swirling around the lip of a supermassive black hole, a monster of the universe whose existence was theorized by Einstein more than a century ago …

Meet Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old Harvard graduate behind the world's first black hole image
5 years, 11 months ago

Meet Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old Harvard graduate behind the world's first black hole image

India Today  

April 10, 2019, saw the world getting its first ever image of a black hole. 3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. More info: https://t.co/WITAL1omGl 2016 story: https://t.co/QV7Zf2snEP#EHTblackhole #EventHorizonTelescope pic.twitter.com/u6FBswmGDZ MIT CSAIL April 10, 2019 About the world's first image of a supermassive …

We Need to Admit That the Black Hole Photo Isn’t Very Good
5 years, 11 months ago

We Need to Admit That the Black Hole Photo Isn’t Very Good

Slate  

It’s like the universe had a royal baby: That’s how excited everyone is for this first glimpse of a black hole, which astronomers announced Wednesday morning in D.C. Instagram vs reality pic.twitter.com/DEeuQ2p5WC — Royal Institution April 10, 2019 And yet the blurriness hasn’t stopped writers from waxing poetic about the image, like the New York Times comparing the black hole …

Scientists Capture First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Scientists Capture First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole

Slate  

In what is being heralded as a momentous and long-awaited development in scientists’ search to understand some of the most mysterious aspects of our universe, astronomers for the first time have captured a photo of a black hole, an international consortium of scientists announced in simultaneous press conferences around the world Wednesday. Beyond producing a cool-looking image, the data will …

Black hole image: Scientists reveal first ever photo from Event Horizon telescope – as it happened
5 years, 11 months ago

Black hole image: Scientists reveal first ever photo from Event Horizon telescope – as it happened

The Independent  

✕ Close Scientists unveil first ever picture of black hole Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An international scientific …

Black Hole event horizon: First image of black hole helps confirm Einstein's general relativity theory
5 years, 11 months ago

Black Hole event horizon: First image of black hole helps confirm Einstein's general relativity theory

Firstpost  

The black hole is located in the M87 galaxy that is about 53 million light years away from Earth. While much around a black hole falls into a death spiral and is never to be seen again, the new image captures “lucky gas and dust” circling at just far enough to be safe and seen millions of years later on …

Scientists unveil first image ever made of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Scientists unveil first image ever made of a black hole

Live Mint  

Brussels: Scientists have revealed the first-ever glimpse of a super-massive black hole today, as the Event Horizon Telescope released the first results of its findings, in a ‘ground-breaking’ discovery that proved Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The collaboration of scientists reveals what is called the “event horizon,” the boundary at the edge of a black hole where the gravitational …

Here it is, the first-ever image of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Here it is, the first-ever image of a black hole

LA Times  

In the swirling heart of a distant galaxy, 55 million light-years from Earth, lies a supermassive black hole with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of our sun. “Making an image of a black hole doesn’t come easily, as many people can tell you,” said Shep Doeleman, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and project director of the global …

Black hole Event Horizon: Watch the epic first black hole photo live today at 6.30 pm
5 years, 11 months ago

Black hole Event Horizon: Watch the epic first black hole photo live today at 6.30 pm

Firstpost  

The image will likely be of the closest supermassive black hole to us at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. An international team of astronomers and engineers working on the Event Horizon Telescope project are seeding news publications for what ScienceAlert reports could be the first-ever photo of a black hole’s event horizon. If true, the ESO’s 10 April …

Black hole: First EVER image unveiled of black hole’s event horizon
5 years, 11 months ago

Black hole: First EVER image unveiled of black hole’s event horizon

Daily Mail  

Scientists have lifted the veil on the first images ever captured of a black hole’s event horizon. Using a ‘virtual telescope’ built from eight radio observatories positioned at different points on the globe, the international team has spent the last few years probing Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, and another target called …

First ever photo of black hole looks like Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings
5 years, 11 months ago

First ever photo of black hole looks like Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings

India Today  

In the end, the black hole turned out to be literally just that -- a black hole surrounded by a ring of angry yellow-red flames. To some, including a scientist, the black hole was reminiscent of the powerful flaming Eye of Sauron from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. An international team of scientists this evening presented a breakthrough in …

This is the first photo of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

This is the first photo of a black hole

CNN  

CNN — In April 2017, scientists used a global network of telescopes to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole, according to an announcement by researchers at the National Science Foundation Wednesday morning. “We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole.” The black hole image captured by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. National Science …

The first-ever photo of a black hole is expected very soon
5 years, 11 months ago

The first-ever photo of a black hole is expected very soon

CNN  

CNN — It’s been a great year so far for space fans, with a partial solar eclipse, super blood wolf moon eclipse, and a Venus and Jupiter conjunction wowing onlookers. The collaboration, called EHT, is a global network of telescopes that has been attempting to capture the first photograph of a black hole ever. The EHT project released this simulation …

First closeup image of a black hole ever taken might be unveiled on 10 April
5 years, 11 months ago

First closeup image of a black hole ever taken might be unveiled on 10 April

Firstpost  

The closest supermassive black hole to us is thought to be at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The international team of astronomers and engineers behind the Event Horizon Telescope project is seeding news publications days ahead of what ScienceAlert reports could be the first-ever photo of a black hole’s event horizon. If true, the ESO’s 10 April event …

Astronomers are trying to take first picture of black hole at centre of our galaxy
7 years, 11 months ago

Astronomers are trying to take first picture of black hole at centre of our galaxy

India Today  

The black hole at the centre of our galaxy is impossible to spot. Despite giving the theory of general relativity which helped predict them the black hole more than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein almost didn't believe they were real. The effort to picture the large black hole at the centre of our galaxy: A team of 120 astronomers will, …

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