If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you were unlucky enough to fall into a black hole, NASA has the answer. A visualization created on a NASA supercomputer to celebrate the start of black hole week on Monday (May 6) takes viewers on a one-way journey beyond a black hole’s event horizon. This outer … Read more
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered an ‘extremely red’ supermassive black hole growing in the shadowy early universe. The red hue of the supermassive black hole, seen as it appeared about 700 million years after the Big Bang, is the result of the expanding universe. As the universe moves outward in … Read more
The second image of the first black hole ever captured by humanity shows its shadow still lingering a year later. The newly released image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) on April 21, 2018, one year and ten days … Read more