This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
The massive ‘black hole’ weather anomaly that materialised over Cape Town in the early hours has left many puzzled.
The Chinese smartphone giant taking on Tesla, Pirates of the Caribbean to return without Johnny Depp, Monkey Town to permanently close due to urban development, Lifestyle audits mooted for senior MPs, Fish ‘full of antidepressants and cocaine’ after sewage spills, and Reserve Bank signals later and fewer rate cuts.
Black holes are so massive that not even light can escape, which is how you know you’re basically nothing in comparison.
NASA released the first track of the void, in a listenable form fit for human ears, and it really is rather unsettling.
JWST has peered into deep space again with its infrared gaze and discovered the “stellar gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy”.
Using just gravity, black holes can rip entire planets apart, but how powerful they are depends on how much mass they contain.
First, we got scientific proof that black holes exist, now there’s photographic proof to back it up.
Scientists have uncovered evidence of a black hole at the centre of our galaxy. They’ve also managed snap a pic of it using the Very Large Telescope.