He started with a black hole with a mass equivalent to about 4.3 million Suns, and, together with data scientist Brian Powell, also of Goddard, fed their data into NASA's Discover supercomputer.

Black holes, those mysterious and terrifying objects in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that not even light can escape it, make for great movie plot twists. Hollywood aside, there ...

Nasa has released footage simulating what it's like being sucked into a black hole, a region of space with such strong gravity not even light can escape. The simulation was processed by a ...

A NASA video reveals in stunning detail what falling into a black hole would look like. A NASA astrophysicist used Einstein's general theory of relativity to simulate the wild ride. The black hole ...

We still don't have an answer, but a new supercomputer simulation is the best guess we have, based on current data. The unknowable is like a flame to the moth of our curiosity, and black holes could ...

Thanks to a NASA supercomputer, an immersive visualization allows us to explore what happens as we approach a black hole. Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ...

In the realm of astrophysics, black holes stand as enigmatic cosmic entities, shrouded in mystery and awe-inspiring in their sheer gravitational might. To probe the depths of these cosmic abysses and ...

NASA has released a mesmerizing 360-degree interactive video that simulates a journey into a supermassive black hole, offering an unprecedented glimpse into one of the most enigmatic and fascinating ...

Bright, starry spiral arms surround an active galactic center in this new Hubble image of galaxy NGC 4951. This 360-degree video lets viewers look all around during a trip around a black hole. Browse ...

Produced on a NASA supercomputer, the simulation tracks a camera as it approaches, briefly orbits, and then crosses the event horizon — the point of no return — of a monster black hole much ...