Black holes

View from Rockefeller Chapel Tower with snow

What we’ll remember from 2020—at UChicago and beyond

Andrea Ghez

Watch Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez explain how to prove a black hole exists

Black Hole

New analysis of black hole reveals a wobbling shadow

First image of supermassive black hole

UChicago scientists help capture first image of a black hole

Virtual Earth-sized telescope aims to capture first image of a black hole

Colliding Black Holes Tell New Story of Stars


Simulations foresee hordes of colliding black holes in observatory’s future

Gravitational waves detected from second pair of colliding black holes

Scientists find ripple in fabric of spacetime: UChicago physicists say discovery of gravitational waves opens new universe of possibilities


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simulation of black holes colliding

Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction