A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.
Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.
The idea is that we might be living in a black hole.
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..
Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...
In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...
The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black ...
Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...