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

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/05/2022

They twist spacetime around themselves, trap information and warp...

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After Arecibo, China’s FAST Telescope Takes Centerstage – in Tense Climate

Sarah Scoles 15/04/2021

Scientific collaboration with China can get complicated for international...

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,

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

Joseph Samuel 15/04/2019

How does a picture of a luminous ring around...

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

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/04/2019

With one fuzzy image, history has been made.

The centre of the Milky Way galaxy looms over the La Silla Observatory, Chile. Credit: esoastronomy/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Does the Milky Way Look Like? Astronomers Use High-School Math to Find Out

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/10/2017

We have stunning shots of other galaxies but we...