The widespread kudos given to Katie Bouman on Twitter was deemed objectionable and excessive by people in some corners of the internet. Continue reading →

 A language professor has given a Hawaiian name — Powehi — to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark experiment. Continue reading →

Katie Bouman, 29, wrote one of the imaging algorithms that helped piece together the photo by filling in the gaps in imaging data obtained from the telescopes. Continue reading →

The picture may seem underwhelming to some. Artist’s renderings or simulations of black holes in the past have looked very similar — here’s why it matters. Continue reading →

The team includes Avery Broderick, an astrophysicist and associate professor at the University of Waterloo. Continue reading →

Black holes are phenomenally dense celestial entities with gravitational fields so powerful no matter or light can escape. Continue reading →

The British physicist, who gained international acclaim for his work on black holes, was laid to rest during a service at London’s Westminster Abbey. Continue reading →

New Alberta-led research has discovered black holes are girded by electromagnetic winds that not only influence how the super-dense interstellar bodies gobble up anything that gets too close but also how they affect vast areas of space around them. Continue reading →

A team of astronomers have found the a black hole that is 12 billion times the mass of the sun. Continue reading →