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.
“The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international […]. 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
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. petapixel.com »
2019-04-12 19:24
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
What separates a good portrait from an incredible one? You can nail the basics like lighting, composition, styling, and chosen medium to capture an image, and it still falls flat. Learning how to connect with your clients and develop a mood is one of the most crucial skills that the greats before us had.
What separates a good portrait from an incredible one? You can nail the basics like lighting, composition, styling, and chosen medium to capture an image, and it still falls flat. Learning how to connect with your clients and develop a mood is one of the most crucial skills that the greats before us had.
The International System of Quantities defines seven base quantities in physics: length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity. For his project Base Quantities, photographer Greg White set out to shoot 7 photos representing these 7 fundamental quantities.
Last June, PetaPixel shared PhotoStatistica, an app that takes the EXIF data from your photos and displays them as graphs. In short, it gave you a visual representation of how you shoot. The app has seen a version 2.
PhotoStatistica is a new Mac app that examines EXIF data from large sets of photos and turns it into interesting statistics and visualizations that reveal how you go about shooting photos. Created by the UK-based photographer Philip Pegden and his startup Bristol Bay Code Factory, PhotoStatistica can help you answer various questions about your photo […]
Photographer Dan Marker-Moore climbed to a remote mountain top in South America to capture the 2019 total solar eclipse back on July 2nd. He then took the photos of the progression and turned them into beautiful “time slice” composites.