03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
Observations are now underway by the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to take a never-seen-before image of the event horizon surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy – Sagittarius A*. These...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
... a black hole and matter coming out, whereas quantum mechanics postulates that information is stored at a black hole’s event horizon, and encoded back into radiation as the black hole radiates. Hawking eventually conceded that it couldn’t be right...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... presence is inferred from a ring of extremely fast moving material that was seen racing around near its event horizon at about 30 percent the speed of light by ESO’s GRAVITY instrument last year. It is estimated that the temperatures reached...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... planet-size dish, giving astronomers exceptional resolving power; for example VBLI observations were used by the Event Horizon Telescope last year to make the first ever photograph of a black hole. A feat that the LCRT's creator...
