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Scientists captured and released the first-ever picture of a black hole. WIRED's Deputy Science Editor Adam Rogers spoke with Harvard's Michael Johnson and Andrew Chael, two of the members of the research team, to find out what the…

From the surface of Venus, to the rings of Saturn, here are 26 amazing photos of our solar system. Subscribe to American Eye 26. Solar Flare 2017 25. Solar Flare 1973 24. Simply Massive 23. Sunrise on Mercury 22. The First 21.…

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The Hubble Deep Field, explained by the man who made it happen. Subscribe to our channel! Click here to download the Hubble Deep Field images: /// Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand…

At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a shadow, and an image of…

Astronomers revealed the first image ever taken of the event horizon of a supermassive black hole, captured by an array of eight ground-based radio telescopes located around the world. Bob McDonald, host of CBC's Quirks & Quarks,…

What it took to collect these 54-million-year-old photons from a supermassive black hole. Become a Video Lab member! This is an updated version of a video we published in 2016 about the Event Horizon Telescope, an international…

Every image of a black hole you've seen was just an illustration. Until now. Black hole, revealed: First image from across the universe The Event Horizon Telescope captures one of the most powerful objects in existence. And basically,…

A global team of astronomers, led by Harvard scientists, have captured an image of a black hole for the first time. The result of a massive, years-long effort by dozens of researchers, the Event Horizon Telescope focused on a pair of…

The first time humans saw the whole earth from space was thanks to a photograph taken by astronaut Bill Anders on the 24th December 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. The photo, known as 'Earthrise' for the first time showed us what our…