After capturing image of black hole, what’s next?

New Center for Astrophysics mission aims for closer look at photon rings and insight into nature of space and time.

Clea Simon • harvard
Aug. 7, 2023 • ~7 min

Black hole burps up shredded star years after consuming it

For the first time, astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains years after it shredded and consumed the star.

Nadia Whitehead • harvard
Oct. 11, 2022 • ~5 min

Second black hole image unveiled, first from our galaxy

Pioneering Harvard-led global collaborative unveils latest portrait, bolstering understanding of relativity, gravity.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
May 12, 2022 • ~11 min

For first time, images capture black hole’s magnetic fields

Images released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration reveal how the black hole, some 55 million light-years away, appears in polarized light.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
March 24, 2021 • ~6 min

Astronomers find supermassive black hole on the move

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected a moving supermassive black hole.

Nadia Whitehead • harvard
March 12, 2021 • ~4 min

In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries

So little is known about black holes and the image hints at a path to a higher-resolution image and more and better data.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
April 17, 2020 • ~8 min

Astrophysicist works to make science understandable

Harvard’s educational mission is bringing the universe’s strangest creation to the world, as short videos about black holes have been seen by millions.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Jan. 28, 2020 • ~9 min

Harvard scientists shed light on importance of black hole image

Researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole, which captures what EHT Director Sheperd Doeleman called “a one-way door from our universe.”

Peter Reuell • harvard
April 10, 2019 • ~6 min

Harvard scientists lead team revealing black hole

A years-long effort by dozens of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.

Peter Reuell • harvard
April 10, 2019 • ~8 min

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