"Frame dragging is an effect present around all spinning black holes." The "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black hole has helped reveal the ...
This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.
Einstein's general theory of relativity predicted that so-called 'plunging regions' around black holes would accelerate matter into them at the speed of light. Now, X-ray observations of a remote ...
Scientists have proven one of Einstein’s theories, finding evidence that a plunging-region around black holes not only exists, but also exerts some of the strongest gravitational forces yet ...
The new findings are part of wide-ranging investigations into outstanding mysteries around black holes by astrophysicists at Oxford University Physics. This study focused on smaller black holes ...
A Death Star is born. As if regular old star-gobbling black holes weren’t terrifying enough, scientists discovered that certain types swivel around and shoot beams at various objects in the ...
A prediction originally made by Albert Einstein about a "plunging region" around black holes has finally been confirmed. Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom discovered that ...
June 6, 2024 — In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose. The gravitational ...
Over 100 years on, scientists have finally confirmed one of Albert Einstein's theories about the nature of black holes. In 1915, Einstein predicted that black holes should have a 'plunging ...
NASA reveals what it would be like to get sucked into a black hole Researchers have finally confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s key predictions about gravity after observing a “plunging region ...
A new study by an international team led by researchers at Oxford University Physics has provided the first observational proof of a key prediction from Einstein’s theory of gravity regarding ...
Credit NASA/CXC/M.Weiss. The black hole pulls material from a companion star towards it, forming a disc that rotates around the black hole before falling into it Einstein's theory of gravity in space ...