An animated look at black-hole spin. ... Last updated on May 18, 2023. S cientists’ newfound ability to peer near a black hole’s event horizon has profound implications.

Black holes aren’t just ultra-massive collapsed stars that trap light with the sheer force of their gravitational waves. They’re also very difficult objects to model–especially when they ...

The black hole that we, as the viewer of the NASA simulation, are falling into has a mass of around 4.3 million times that of the sun.

The giant black hole TON 619 dominates this graphic. On right: Also in orange, the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The ...

Nearly 8,000 light-years away from Earth, astronomers have discovered a black hole that keeps rapidly swinging out jets of plasma clouds into space, according to a new study.

A new animation visualizes the effects of two black holes orbiting each other. In this view, a supermassive black hole weighing 200 million times the mass of the sun lies in the foreground and its ...

The smallest of the lot is the relatively puny J1601+3113, a dwarf galaxy with a black hole at its center. NASA said in a release that even though J1601+3113 has 100,000 solar masses, it is so ...

First is M87's black hole, which has a mass of 5.4 billion suns and a shadow so big that even a beam of light — travelling at 670 million mph — would take about two and a half days to cross it.

In 2017, a black hole with a mass of 800 million Suns was discovered in a distant corner of space that meant it grew that big just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang – a growth rate ...

Astronomers have captured for the first time the shadow of a black hole and the powerful jet of material emerging from it in a new image released on Wednesday.

The black hole shadow and emission ring shown here are gravitationally-lensed projections of the far-side of the black hole’s event horizon and accretion disk, respectively.