Jan 14, 2025 · A black hole is an area of such immense gravity that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. Black holes form at the end of some stars’ lives. The energy that held the star …

Nov 21, 2022 · A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. Explore

Most black holes probably have no more mass than do many stars. The force of their gravitational attraction is caused by their density. In fact, the extremely strong gravitational force near a …

Black holes have long fascinated the imagination yet challenged discovery. Their extreme gravity, so strong light cannot escape, make them exceptionally difficult to see. Nearly a century after …

Oct 22, 2024 · Black holes grow by consuming matter, a process scientists call accretion, and by merging with other black holes. A stellar-mass black hole paired with a star may pull gas from …

Jan 13, 2025 · Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky for supermassive black holes — those up to billions of times heavier than the Sun. The new …

Jun 14, 2013 · A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black …

A black hole is a massive, compact astronomical object so dense that its gravity prevents anything from escaping, even light.Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently …

Sep 25, 2024 · Black holes are some of the universe’s strangest and most violent objects: invisible objects of immense density whose gravity is so overpowering that not even light can …

Apr 25, 2023 · NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery. Black holes are objects so dense that not …

Black holes are among the strangest things in the universe. They are massive objects – collections of mass – with gravity so strong that nothing can escape, not even light. The most …

Sep 24, 2024 · Black holes consist of two main components: the singularity, where mass has been crushed to a point; and the event horizon, beyond which nothing ― not even light ― can …

Nov 6, 2023 · By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers was able to find the telltale signature of a …

13 hours ago · Supermassive black holes at galaxy centers can emit powerful jets when they consume nearby gas and dust, creating radio galaxies. Only 10-20% of galaxies exhibit this, …

Feb 15, 2023 · Venture into the world of black holes and discover amazing facts through animations, artists’ images, vivid descriptions, and classroom tips for educators. NASA …

Jun 10, 2022 · The black hole is the crushed remnant of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. The surviving core is several times the mass of our Sun. The black hole traps light …

Jan 13, 2025 · Most telescopes can rather easily identify face-on supermassive black holes, though not edge-on ones. But there’s an exception to this that the authors of the new paper …

Mar 23, 2017 · This illustration shows how gravitational waves can propel a black hole from the center of a galaxy. The scenario begins in the first panel with the merger of two galaxies, each …

Dec 9, 2021 · In 2013 evidence for a stubby southern jet near the black hole came from X-rays detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio waves detected by the Jansky Very …

May 25, 2017 · Instead of becoming a black hole through the expected process of a supernova, the black hole candidate formed through a “failed supernova.” The team used NASA’s Hubble …