Here's a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of ...

While the mathematics of the equation are ... the collision of two Black Holes. This year, the Event Horizons Telescope is hoping to produce an actual image of an event horizon, a non-physical ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Astronomers gain a greater understanding of black hole singularity. Experimental evidence for a finite core could illuminate ...

An artist's concept depicts the likely black hole within ... the more egg-shaped the event horizon becomes as it warps space-time around it. General relativity equations tell us that a star ...

It falls right out of Einstein's equations, much to the consternation ... So, too, is the state of matter inside a black hole. Can matter survive the event horizon? Where is it located?

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

One of the most surprising findings was the discovery of Calabi-Yau three-fold periods—geometric structures traditionally ...