M87* One Year Later: Proof of a persistent black hole shadow

Published: 19 January 2024

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, including Professor Daryl Haggard at McGill University, has released new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy...

Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy

Published: 12 May 2022

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole...

Telescopes unite in unprecedented observations of famous black hole

Published: 14 April 2021

In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the...

First images of magnetic fields at the edge of black hole in M87 Galaxy

Published: 25 March 2021

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which includes researchers from McGill University, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed this week a new view of the...

Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole

Published: 10 April 2019

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today,...

Latest gravitational-wave detection opens new era for astronomy

Published: 16 October 2017

The discovery of a gravitational wave caused by the merger of two neutron stars, reported today by a collaboration of scientists from around the world, opens a new era in astronomy. It marks the...

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