The black hole has become the poster child for outrageously incomprehensible astronomical phenomena. Science News sponsorship position. And now there is an image available to put on the poster.

NASA/JPL-Caltech Devoured by Gravity. Cygnus X-1 was the first confirmed black hole back in 1964; it’s a particularly appropriate subject for a retro horror movie. Every detail on this poster is ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they form. Called supermassive black holes, they have been found at the center of pretty much every galaxy and are a hundred thousand to billion times the mass of our Sun.

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with millions of synthetic images to uncover surprising new insights into Sagittarius A*,

Astronomers recently used artificial intelligence to fine-tune the first-ever image of a black hole, captured in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope. By Dennis Overbye Four years ago, astronomers ...

The black hole in this galaxy has a mass that the Event Horizon Telescope researchers estimate to be 6.5 billion times more massive than our Sun. “M87’s huge black hole mass makes it really a ...