At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

A globe-spanning array of radio telescopes is on track to begin operations in 2017, simultaneously observing light wrapping around and silhouetting a supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

The Event Horizon Telescope reveals the silhouette of a black hole at the center of a galaxy 55 million light-years away. Skip to main content. Search Shop Newsletters Renew Give a Gift Subscribe.

The photo, taken by photographer Eduardo Garcés on April 12, 2025, captures a stunning silhouette of the massive telescope’s dome against the backdrop of the glowing sky.

Snapping a black hole's silhouette is like photographing an orange on the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers ...

Telescopes can look instead for the silhouette of a black hole’s event horizon — the perimeter inside which nothing can be seen or escape — against its accretion disk.

The moon and Venus shine bright, with the Auxiliary Telescope shown in silhouette. ... ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory in northern Chile began operation on May 25, 1998.

Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope had previously revealed a silhouette of the protoplanetary disk as seen edge-on, meaning only the disk’s side was visible in the angle at which it ...

Combined, this array acts like a telescope the size of Earth, and it was able to collect more than a petabyte of data while staring at M87’s black hole in April 2017. It then took two years for ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful cosmic backdrop.

Until now. After more than a decade of work, results from the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, stunned the world this year with the first direct image of a black hole’s event horizon, the region ...