This is exciting. If everything goes well, we may get the first-ever photo of a black hole really soon. A large number of astronomers are getting ready to achieve this feat using a global network of telescopes: More »
We knew there was a supermassive black hole in the middle of our very own Milky Way. Now we have images of how this gigantic monster eats. This video shows it devouring a massive, newly-discovered gas cloud. More »
OK, so it’s not quite as sensational as it sounds— UK scientists have been trying to simulate conditions near the event horizons that shroud black holes, and they’ve cleverly simulated a horizon using pulses of light in a special optical fibre. So, no disastrous gravity well was made and the world didn’t suddenly end with a horrible crunch. But they did create an analogue of a black hole that helped them understand some of the weird and whacky physics that goes on near real ones.
