accretion disk

What Are You Really Looking at When You’re Looking at a Black Hole?

Don’t Let the Event Horizon Steal the Limelight, Save Some for the Ergosphere

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First Light From the M87 Black Hole: What Are We Looking At?

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

A 200-Year-Old Experiment Has Helped Us See a Black Hole’s Shadow

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The Story of Dust, Through Space and Time

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Why It Matters That India and the US Teamed up to Measure a Black Hole’s Spin

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How Do We Know Supermassive Black Holes Are Out There?