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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new NASA simulation takes us on what might be one of the scariest trips in the universe — spiralling into a reality-warping black hole. In recent years, astronomers have given us our first ...
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope images show streams of dust feeding the supermassive black hole in Andromeda, revealing how ...