Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

In honor of Black Hole Week, NASA has released a couple of videos produced on a NASA supercomputer, giving viewers a bird's-eye view of what it might look like if they ever plunged into the event ...

NASA offers a 360° virtual reality simulation to experience what falling into a black hole might be like, including time distortion and spaghettification. The simulation provides a surreal, eerie ...

In May 2024, NASA released a supercomputer-generated immersive 360-degree video visualization of how it would appear if you fell into a supermassive black hole – one with a mass 4.3 million times that ...

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy exists a supermassive black hole that's more than four million times the sun's mass. A human traveling to the black hole's surface, known as the event horizon and ...

Even though black holes swallow anything that comes near them — even light — they are still possible to locate by looking for signs of their effects. Black holes are extremely dense, so they have a ...

The first 360-degree cameras sent to space have captured incredible, high-definition images of Earth like never before seen. Chinese tech company Insta360 recently unveiled the breathtaking photos of ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Something unusual may have risen from the ashes of an epic smashup. In the middle of a galaxy shaped like an infinity symbol — thought to be the result of two galaxies colliding — sits a supermassive ...

Massive stars know how to go out in style. Some of the brightest, longest-lived flares probably come from megastars getting shredded by supermassive black holes, researchers report in the June 6 ...