Director/co-writer Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar is celebrating ... of what turned out to be the film’s prophetic black hole visuals. During pre-production, Thorne wanted ...

helping it cut through clouds of interstellar dust to see fainter, more distant light sources. According to a team of astronomers that studied the black hole, it’s essentially dormant despite ...

A study in Nature finds that black holes in the early Universe go through short periods of ultra-fast growth, followed by long periods of dormancy. (Credit: Jiarong Gu) Right now, a giant black hole ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar marks its 10th anniversary ... revisits the meticulous creation of the film’s prophetic black hole visuals. Nolan recalled his initial reluctance to involve ...

While black holes are perplexing at any size, some of the most mysterious are hypothetical primordial black holes, those that sprung into existence in the first second after the Big Bang and some ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before ...

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape. Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.

Galaxy JADES GN-1001830 has something of an oddity at its center: a supermassive black hole that makes up almost half of the mass of the whole galaxy. This object must have undergone an intense ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are trying to solve. When you purchase through links ...

Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...