Black holes

image of Centaurus A galaxy and a box zoomed in to show the faint image taken by the EHT of a jet coming from the center

Event Horizon Telescope takes pioneering image of massive jet spewing from black hole

Illustration of a black hole with wind flowing from center

Could dark matter be behind mysterious, supermassive black holes in the early universe?

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

Rendering of Sagittarius A

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