In a groundbreaking achievement, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has conducted the highest-resolution observations ever achieved from Earth, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take ...

And kept them all in synch with powerful atomic clocks. They call the effort the Event Horizon Telescope. This series of telescopes, combined, has about the same capabilities as a telescope as ...

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of massive galaxies like our own Milky Way. These ginormous cosmic beasts ...

Famed physicist Albert Einstein first theorized that an observer should see a ring of light surrounding the black hole, ...

The sixteen sources were observed with the Event Horizon Telescope during its first campaign in 2017. The extreme resolution achieved by the Event Horizon Telescope enabled studies of jets closer ...

The Event Horizon Telescope project plans to reveal the first-ever images of a black hole, and the international group of researchers working on the project have something very big to show the ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope project have released images of a distant ...

So Doeleman founded a network of observatories, collectively called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). In 2011, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) opened in the Atacama Desert of Chile ...

On Wednesday, the Event Horizon Telescope released the first-ever image of a black hole, a historic moment shared by scientists spread around the world. WATCH: What does a black hole look like?