• “ How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project “ by Sarah Mervosh in the New York Times • “ Trolls Hijacked a Scientist’s Image to Attack Katie Bouman.

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As the world got a glimpse this week at the first images of a black hole, another photo started being widely shared online and became synonymous with the project. It was a picture of 29-year-old ...

The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is seen at left, in polarized light. The center inset image shows polarized emission from the Milky Way's center, captured by SOFIA.

In 1971, English mathematical physicist and Nobel-prize winner Roger Penrose proposed how energy could be extracted from a rotating black hole. He argued that this could be done by building a ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. An artist’s concept of Porphyrion, a jet of material 23 million light-years long ...

As the world got a glimpse this week at the first images of a black hole, another photo started being widely shared online and became synonymous with the project. It was a picture of 29-year-old ...