The video is pretty mind-bending. Nasa have released footage taken from their ultra-powerful supercomputer to create what they claim is a realistic visualisation of what it would be like to get sucked into a black hole. A team of scientists at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland produced the simulation in the hopes of […]

2 years ago

The echo was emitted hundreds of years ago An eerie echo coming from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has been detected. It was emitted about 200 years ago when the dark abyss stirred from a state of dormancy, say scientists. The sound marks a very intense period of activity as gas and dust were […]

2 years ago

The detected light started its journey across space when the universe was about a third of the age it is now Astronomers have identified an incredibly intense blast of visible light that came towards Earth as having come from a black hole. The discovery marks the first time scientists have seen a black hole use light, […]

3 years ago

The team behind the discovery have been nicknamed the ‘black hole police’ Scientists have discovered a stellar-mass black hole that they say is unlike any other found before. Researchers say they have found a dormant black hole at least nine times the mass of our Sun just 160,000 light years from Earth, the first time […]

3 years ago

Put it in your calendars, 10,000 years from now Two massive black holes will collide in 10,000 years causing ripples to be sent across the universe as time and space, scientists have warned. Research from Astronomers at CalTech found that two black holes, currently 9 billion light-years away in deep space, are revolving around each […]

4 years ago

There is light and the end of the tunnel, well in this case, a black hole A black hole is a colossal cosmic event that is often depicted in film and TV as the last hurdle for space travellers to overcome. But the reality is often glossed over, and in actual fact, black holes are […]

5 years ago