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Topic: accretion disks

The first image of a black hole. (The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al.)

Our 236-year path to seeing a black hole

Keith A. Spencer
Illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070. (Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

What a black hole looks like

Nicole Karlis