Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the event ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for ... Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets Dec. 17, 2024 — After taking the first images of ...

"Regular black holes, and especially mimickers, are never exactly identical to standard black holes — not even outside the horizon. So observations that ... perhaps even ruling out certain hypotheses.

The theory suggests a peculiar process occurs near the event horizon — the point of no return — around black holes. Normally, virtual pairs of particles are constantly created by what are ...

beyond their "event horizon", nothing—not even light—is able to escape their gravitational pull. Astrophysicists suspect that every galaxy may sport a supermassive black hole at its heart ...

It wandered too close to a black hole and was ripped apart in a bright burst of light. That much isn’t unusual, but what stunned astronomers was where it happened: not in the dense center of the ...