First Black Hole Image

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  Japan’s XRISM Telescope Delivers Insights from a Supermassive Black Hole and a Supernova

  Less than a year since Japan's X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) launched, it has delivered its first results, uncovering crucial information about black holes and supernova remnants. XRISM is a collaborative effort between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Its observations have revealed...

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  Scientists Unveil New, Improved 'Skinny Donut' Black Hole Image

  The 2019 release of the first image of a black hole was hailed as a significant scientific achievement. But truth be told, it was a bit blurry - or, as one astrophysicist involved in the effort called it, a "fuzzy orange donut."

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  A Unique Collaboration Using a Virtual Earth-Sized Telescope Shows How Science Is Changing in the 21st Century

  In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration produced the first-ever image of a black hole, stunning the world. Now, scientists are taking it further. The next generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) collaboration aims to create high-quality videos of black holes.

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  NASA's Hubble Captures Malnourished Black Hole at Core of Spiral Galaxy NGC 3147 in Draco Constellation

  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recently shared images of a spiral galaxy named NGC 3147. This majestic galaxy is located about 130 million light-years away in the constellation Draco, also called the "dragon". The image shows the galaxy's graceful, winding arms appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. In reality, these spiral...

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  First Pic Of Black Hole In Milky Way's Centre, 27,000 Light Years Away

  An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy -- a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*.

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  First Image Of Milky Way's "Doughnut-Shaped" Black Hole Revealed

  Sagittarius A* possesses four million times the mass of our Sun and is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth.

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  Black Hole Image of Sagittarius A* Unveiled by Scientists, From the Centre of the Milky Way Galaxy

  Scientists have provided the first look at the black hole — called Sagittarius A*, or SgrA — lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, unveiling an image of a supermassive black hole that devours any matter wandering within its gargantuan gravitational pull.

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  See These Iconic Images of Dust Filled Disks of Galaxies Captured by Hubble

  NASA's Hubble Instagram page shared iconic Hubble images that captured disks of dust fuelling black holes at the centres of galaxies. The first image showed a giant disk of cold gas dust fuelling a black hole at the centre of an elliptical galaxy, named NGC 4261.

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  Scientists Who Came Up With Black Hole Photo Now Plan A Movie

  By the time an international group of scientists stunned the world with the first ever image of a black hole, they were already planning a sequel: a movie showing how massive clouds of gas are forever sucked into the void.

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  "Oscar Of Science" Award For Team Behind World's First Black Hole Image

  The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world's first image of a black hole were honored Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning $3 million dollars for what is known as the "Oscars of science."

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  "Powehi": The Name Of The First-Ever Photographed Black Hole

  The first-ever black hole to be photographed has been named "Powehi". The name Powehi, meaning embellished dark source of unending creation, was deliberated upon by astronomers and renowned Hawaiian language professor, Larry Kimura.

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  Row Over "Black Hole" Photo Forces China's Largest Image Provider To Shut

  China's largest stock images provider, Visual China Group, shut its website and apologised on Friday after it falsely claimed copyright of images such as the first photo of a black hole and China's national flag.

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  "A Game Changer": Indian Scientists Praise First-Ever Blackhole Images

  "This is the first direct evidence of a black hole. That way, it is a game changer," said one of the Indian scientists.

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  First Ever Photo Of Black Hole Inspires A Meme-Fest On Twitter

  In what is being considered a significant milestone on the path to understanding the universe, scientists have managed to capture the first ever photo of a supermassive black hole. But for some on Twitter, these lofty ideas held no importance - they were more immediately concerned with cracking jokes at the black hole's expense.

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  This Is It. Supermassive Black Hole Image Captured For First Time

  Scientists have finally captured the first direct image of a supermassive black hole.