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Event Horizon
The boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape. It marks the point of no return for matter falling into the black hole.
Source: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
APODs including "Event Horizon"
Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk
03/12/2025
GW250114: Rotating Black Holes Collide
24/09/2025
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Video
06/05/2025
Virgo Cluster Galaxies
17/04/2025
Messier 87
20/02/2025
Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge
Video
10/05/2024
The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
09/05/2024
Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk
Video
08/05/2024
Swirling Magnetic Field around Our Galaxy's Central Black Hole
01/04/2024
Virgo Cluster Galaxies
26/05/2023
The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
04/05/2023
Centaurus A: A Peculiar Island of Stars
03/05/2023
The Milky Way's Black Hole
13/05/2022
First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole
01/05/2022
The Holographic Principle and a Teapot
03/10/2021
EHT Resolves Central Jet from Black Hole in Cen A
04/08/2021
The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
Video
16/04/2021
The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
15/04/2021
When Black Holes Collide
Video
11/04/2021
M87's Central Black Hole in Polarized Light
31/03/2021
Virgo Cluster Galaxies
10/10/2020
Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk
Video
25/08/2020
The Galactic Center from Radio to X-ray
31/03/2020
Animation: Spiral Disk around a Black Hole
Video
20/08/2019
The Galaxy, the Jet, and the Black Hole
27/04/2019
Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge
Video
14/04/2019
First Horizon-Scale Image of a Black Hole
11/04/2019
The Holographic Principle
23/04/2017
Arp 299: Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies
01/11/2016
When Black Holes Collide
Video
20/10/2015