The Disney film, The Black Hole, had an unusual origin story ... they are accosted by a series of robots. The crew has a robot of their own, but they soon find out that the "robots" are actually ...

layout artist and producer at Disney and received an Oscar nomination for his effects work on the 1979 film The Black Hole, has died. He was 99. Hale died Jan. 29 of natural causes at his home in ...

An artist's conception of a black hole's corona, which are the pale swirls above and below the black hole. Credit: NASA / Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) A strange black hole is making ...

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The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into one is both interesting and terrifying. Now, a group of astronomers ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew so big in such a short timescale." Astronomers have discovered a ...

An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi The energetic streams are together 23 million light ...