The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic dance in this NASA visualization. The movie traces how the
Supermassive Black Hole in Polarised Light
Astronomers for the first time image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s supermassive black hole.
It’s Black Hole Friday
A black hole is an astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it.
Last Moments of Star Devoured by a Black Hole
Death by spaghettification: ESO telescopes record last moments of star devoured by a black hole.
Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics awarded to Penrose, Genchel and Gez
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 awarded to to Penrose, Genchel and Gez, pioneering in the research of black holes.
Unexpected Black Holes Collide
The two black holes that spiraled together to produce the gravitational wave event GW190521 were the most massive black holes ever seen by LIGO and
A Black Hole Accretion Disk – visualization
If the black hole was surrounded by a swirling disk of glowing and accreting gas, then the great gravity of the black hole would deflect
Journey to a Black Hole
We are unveiling more and more of the secrets of the Universe which surrounds us, that including black holes, a region of spacetime where gravity
Fastest Star ever observed
Fastest star ever observed by astronomers is moving at more than 8% the speed of light.
Astronomers witnessed a Black Hole ‘Blink’
The telltale sign that the black hole was feeding vanished, perhaps when a star interrupted the feast. The event could lend new insight into these
