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.
(via NASA Goddard) This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horizon and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you were having a bad day, plunging into a black hole would be enough to really top it off. Apparently, you’d experience a process known as “spaghettification” in which the black hole’s ...
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 ...