NASA has released a new animation of a black hole that shows how gravity can skew light, distorting how humans see it. The agency compared it to looking in a "carnival mirror." A black hole's gravity ...

Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest globular star cluster to our home planet. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Black holes are big. But just how big are they compared to something like our Sun? That's what NASA's latest animation aims to answer. The new black hole animation showcases some of the universe's ...

In the 1960s, the United States and the then-Soviet Union were engaged in an all-out race for the Moon. The contest for supremacy in space was documented in the documentary The Space Race, streaming ...

A new NASA animation shows what you'd see if you were hanging out near a black hole. The black hole's strong gravity would distort your view: From the side, the outer ring, known as the accretion disk ...

Scientists may know more about black holes today than ever before, but that doesn't make them any easier to see. By their very nature, black holes swallow up light that gets too close, and the best ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A stunning new animation from NASA shows the entrancing dance of two monster black holes in orbit ...