Black holes are always fascinating, and a new simulation adds to their mystery. You likely did not previously associate them ...

The destination of the simulation is a virtual supermassive black hole with a mass 4.3 million times that of Earth's sun, a size equivalent to the monster Sagittarius A* located at the center of ...

The simulation shows a camera heading toward a black hole -- similar to the one at the center of our galaxy -- that's surrounded by a flat, swirling cloud of hot gas called an accretion disk.

ULTRA-powerful black holes can suck down stars like spaghetti and tear them to shreds, a new animation reveals. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, features a black hole at its heart that occasionally chows… ...

An artist's impression of a moderately warm star — not at all what a black hole with a hot accretion disc would be like. (Image credit: Merikanto/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) But to everyone's ...

An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...

Black holes can also turn stars into another food item: pancakes. Pancake detonation occurs when an object in a black hole’s vicinity is flattened by tidal forces. Read More About Space: ...

Binary black holes, systems consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other, synchronize their spins before they merge together, according to new research.. The moment creates a ...

The simulation, led by Caltech astrophysicist Elias Most, reveals how intense gravitational forces from the black hole begin to tear apart the neutron star's surface as the two objects spiral closer.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Blackhole Simulator Enter the life of a small black hole at the center of the smallest galaxy. What you seek is to become the legendary super black hole ...