Here's a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of ...

By reducing these scattering effects, the EHT can now observe structures as intricate as photon rings, which form when light ...

Astronomers studying elusive supermassive black ... Event Horizon Telescope, an expanded version of EHT that astronomers hope will capture not just images but also videos of black holes.

But where reality ends and fiction takes over is at the edge of a black hole — a place called the event horizon, where no spacecraft has ever gone. So, whatever happens beyond that boundary ...