The first-ever picture of a black hole was unveiled yesterday, generating a huge amount of interest and excitement across the world. But how exactly was this picture captured? Well, it definitely wasn’t as simple as “pointing and clicking” a giant camera.
One of the researchers who has become a poster child of the black hole […]. petapixel.com
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy that is not acting like the destructive monsters they are often portrayed as. Instead, this black hole is creating stars rather than absorbing them. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-01-19 23:25
Astrophysicists have successfully observed light coming from behind a black hole. this observation is the first of its kind and proves Albert Einstein’s theory that huge objects can warp space since no light can pass through a black hole and come out the other side. petapixel.com »
2021-08-04 22:40
In April 2019, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled the resulting image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project, the world's first ever photograph of a supermassive black hole. dpreview.com »
2020-07-14 01:57
Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Editor's note: It appears the National Science Foundation has taken down the link to the full-resolution image and replaced it with a JPG image for the time being, likely due to the ridiculous bandwidth required to load a 183. dpreview.com »
2019-04-10 17:02
This is the first photo ever captured of a black hole. It was revealed today after years of international collaboration between over 200 international astronomers. At a coordinated press conference across the globe, researchers at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) announced that their efforts in using a planet-scale array of eight ground-based telescopes succeeded in […] petapixel.com »
2019-04-10 16:33
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
George Steinmetz, a photographer who we featured previously, recently gave an inspiring 10-minute TED talk about his work. To capture unique images of Africa, Steinmetz took a motorized paraglider to the skies.
Creativity in any discipline is about finding new and original ideas. When they strike, creative thoughts seem to appear out of nowhere — light bulb moments. Sometimes it seems like creativity is something intangible that we can’t control.