A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

New images of Ultima Thule, the small chunk of primordial debris NASA's New Horizons probe zoomed past on New Year's Day, came into much sharper focus Wednesday, revealing a snowman-shaped object made ...

In early 2007 New Horizons flew through the Jupiter system, getting a speed-boost from the giant planet’s gravity while snapping stunning, close-up images of Jupiter and its largest moons. Fast ...

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Following is a transcript of the video. What you are seeing is the first ever image of a black hole. Maybe it doesn't look spectacular at first. But consider this: Black holes by their very nature are ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken an exciting first picture of a distant Solar System object it will visit on New Year’s Day 2019. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in ...

What does a black hole actually look like? For generations, scientists argued over whether black holes actually existed or not. Sure, there were mathematical solutions in General Relativity that ...

The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a massive enough object in a small enough volume of space would render everything ...