And, perhaps most fascinatingly, the singularity at the black hole's center is no longer a point, but rather a 1-dimensional ring, where the radius of the ring is determined by the mass and ...

For the first time, physicists have calculated exactly what kind of singularity lies at the center of a realistic black hole. In January 1916, Karl Schwarzschild, a German physicist who was stationed ...

The curved edge of superheated gas we see defines a singularity’s outer limit, the black hole’s event horizon beyond which escape is impossible. The bubble of darkness that this edge abuts is ...

But a spinning black hole, unlike its stationary counterpart, has an “inner horizon,” too — a second surface of no return, also spherical and invisible, lying somewhere between the event horizon and ...

And when you reach the singularity, it will be a ring; different parts of your body will encounter the singularity — at the inner ergosurface of the Kerr black hole — at different spatial ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center — a point, hidden behind the ...

We can save a more realistic trip for another visit ... The black hole itself is a singularity, a point of infinite density. But you can't see the singularity itself; ...

But, they’re also some of the most realistic depictions of black holes we have right now. Two simulations of M87; the image on the right is closer to what we might actually see. Andrew Chael ...

For a more realistic situation where the black hole is rotating, ... In short: all roads lead to the singularity. The singularity of the black hole now lies in all your possible futures.

My colleague Lior Burko and I have been investigating the physics of black holes for over two decades. In 2016, my Ph.D. student, Caroline Mallary, inspired by Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster ...