Adam is an astronomy PhD student at the Open University, where he studies black holes and variable stars using citizen science. Before his PhD, he obtained a bachelors degrees in astronomy and computer science from the University of Leicester. He also spent about 10 years working as a computer programmer, including six years with the team behind the Zooniverse citizen science platform at the University of Oxford.
Astronomers famously snapped the first ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. But many black holes are actually near impossible to detect.
Now another team using the Hubble Space Telescope seems to have finally found something nobody has seen before: a black hole which is completely invisible. The research, which has been posted online and submitted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, is yet to be peer-reviewed. Black holes are…