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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 Hubble Space Telescope was the first to discover HH 30. Now, Webb, the most powerful instrument of its kind ever put into orbit, has investigated the stellar formation in unprecedented detail.

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.

Ultimately, the telescope will help scientists learn whether studying atmospheres in silhouette—as planets transit their stars—is likely to be a successful technique for detecting signs of life.

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.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will join other telescopes in capturing the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, an object known as Sagitarrius A*.