Visual China Group, the “Getty Images of China” and owner of 500px, has sparked an outcry after it attempted to claim copyright to the first-ever black hole picture that became a worldwide sensation this week.
After the groundbreaking black hole image was published by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT) on April 10th, it was […]. petapixel.com
Astronomers using the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have captured the first view of the magnetic fields surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). petapixel.com »
2024-03-27 18:11
Illustration Credit: FECYT, IAC Astronomers believe there could be as many as 100 million black holes among the stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Despite the many theorized black holes, it's been a struggle for scientists to identify an isolated black hole. dpreview.com »
2022-06-12 16:35
NASA has announced that it has observed a black hole at the center of dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 that defies expectations. Thanks to detailed evidence from the Hubble Space Telescope's imaging and spectroscopy instruments, scientists can see that the black hole is 'creating stars rather than gobbling them up. dpreview.com »
2022-01-21 18:44
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has published a new view of the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. The EHT published the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019. This time, the image shows the black hole in polarized light, which shows the magnetic field surrounding the black hole. dpreview.com »
2021-03-26 22:46
In 2019, researchers made international headlines by releasing the world’s first photo of a black hole. Here’s a 1-minute video that zooms from the night sky into that black hole image to show how impressive the achievement was. petapixel.com »
2020-07-11 18:07
European officials are expected to announce the first ever image of a black hole at a press event scheduled for 15:00 CEST on April 10. The conference will be held by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, European Commission, and European Research Council, according to an announcement by the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), and it will involve the presentation of 'a groundbreaking result from the EHT. dpreview.com »
2019-04-03 20:45
Scientists just further confirmed what has long been believed: that there’s a supermassive black hole scientists named Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. This mind-blowing 1. petapixel.com »
2018-11-02 21:32
The visual record left behind by the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers has, according to New York Times critic Charles Hagen, come to “represent one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to depict a society in photographs (Hagen, 1985). petapixel.com »
2017-07-31 18:09
500px has announced that it will be winding down its Marketplace for premium royalty-free stock photos and will instead be selling its users photos exclusively through Visual China Group (its parent company) in China and through Getty Images across the rest of the world.
500px has been acquired by Visual China Group (VCG), the Beijing, China-based photo and media agency that’s known as “the Getty Images of China. ” VCG announced today that its subsidiary VCG Hong Kong has acquired 100% of 500px shares.
After Bill Gates sold Corbis Images to Visual China Group (VCG) back in January 2016, the citizen journalism photo agency Demotix (which Corbis bought in 2012) suddenly went dark. Now, after over a year has passed since the Corbis sale, some Demotix contributors have finally received an email from VCG… with few happy answers. Back […]