Christopher Nolan was guided by a classic sci-fi film while making Interstellar, particularly when it came to the movie's ...

As mankind inches ever closer to advance AI technology, robot movies past and present imagine a future that may not be so far ...

Panoramic view of the sun and orbiting planets in the solar system, zoom out of entire solar system from earth, rotate and pull lens. Some of the material is from NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute ...

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 ...

And with such a big telescope, you can actually– the team that has done this made images of two black holes lighted up by gas that is not in a thin disk, as we see it in the movie Interstellar, but, ...

Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...

The black hole is so enormous that it makes up roughly 40% of the total mass of its host galaxy: in comparison, most black holes in the local universe are roughly 0.1% of their host galaxy mass.

In 1974, Stephen Hawking put forward an intriguing idea: Using the principles of quantum physics, he predicted that even though nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests. Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event ...

The black hole is so enormous that it makes up roughly 40% of the total mass of its host galaxy: in comparison, most black holes in the local universe are roughly 0.1% of their host galaxy mass.

In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some ...