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.

The visualization, produced on a NASA supercomputer, allows users to experience flight towards a supermassive black hole. 'So I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera — a stand-in for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What would we see if we had the chance to travel inside a black hole? A question covered in major Hollywood films (one above all Interstellar) and which has always fueled the debate among scientists.

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 ...

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 ...