The large black dot is a shadow cast by Jupiter’s moon Io. Image ... in this case the Sun. A similar thing happens on Earth during solar eclipses—an effect that was beautifully captured ...

(Note that imaging a black hole ... shadow that even our nearest supermassive black holes would imprint on the sky is very tiny,” Markoff explained to Salon. “Think about the size of the moon ...

That might sound big, but on cosmic scales, it’s tiny: the black hole at the center of the Milky Way spans just 10 billionths of a degree on the sky. (For comparison, the full Moon is about half ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It’s the first direct observation confirming the presence of the black hole ...

It’s a moon shadow. The shadow is from Jupiter’s volcanically active moon, lo, eclipsing the sun, just like our moon does on Earth. NASA said the spot measured 2,200 miles wide — roughly the ...

"I think all dark matter candidates are just a little bit wild." Just before the end of 2023, astrophysicist Matt Caplan announced the release of a new paper that boasts a rather outlandish title ...

About 27,000 light-years away sits a massive astrophysical object, some four million times the mass of our sun, surrounded ... they are images of the shadow of the black hole.

The international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is imaging for the first time the black-hole candidate ... times that of our Sun and whose shadow is about half of the size ...