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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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?

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

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

He used Einstein’s equations describing general relativity ... way we thought it would look!’” Outside the event horizon of a black hole—the point from beyond which no matter or light ...