This is a "point of no return", beyond which it is impossible to escape the gravitational effects of the black hole Prof Falcke had the idea for the project when he was a PhD student in 1993.

"But this new image is special because it's our supermassive black hole," said Prof Heino Falcke, one of the European pioneers behind the EHT project. "This is in 'our backyard', and if you want ...

Newcastle University experts will lead a new project to help our understanding of black holes.

and co-lead of the project. “Along with Sgr A* having a strikingly similar polarisation structure to that seen in the much larger and more powerful M87* black hole, we’ve learned that strong ...

Perhaps it will also bring us closer to an understanding of the true nature of black holes" Scientists have strengthened the potential connection between dark energy and black holes. New research ...

Christopher Carothers, professor and director of RPI's Center for Computational Innovations, will serve as the project's principal ... that track the formation of black holes.

An curved arrow pointing right. Fans of "Interstellar" take note: Astronomers might have just discovered a black hole similar to the one in Christopher Nolan's film. And the discovery coincides ...

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...

The cosmic dawn, a period less than a billion years after the Big Bang, holds one of modern astrophysics' greatest mysteries: ...