"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." Veering close to a black hole is dangerous business.

The region shines even brighter ... generation Event Horizon Telescope, an expanded version of EHT that astronomers hope will capture not just images but also videos of black holes.

We’ve even caught one on camera in 2019, when we finally took a direct picture of the “event horizon” that marks the point of no escape from a black hole. But why do we care? Black holes ...

But supermassive black holes are much larger, and this extreme mass makes them gravitationally powerful. Any object that falls past a black hole's point-of-no-return, called the event horizon ...

Astronomers studying elusive supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies ... of Technology in Sweden are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-sized array of eight ...