Black Hole Week 2024

It can be disorienting teetering on the edge of the event horizon, contemplating the darkness that surely lies within.

Bright, starry spiral arms surround an active galactic center in this new Hubble image of galaxy NGC 4951.

Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? A new NASA visualization gives you an idea.

Explore a scenario where a camera just misses a black hole's event horizon and slingshots back out

This 360-degree video lets viewers look all around during a trip around a black hole.

Browse explainer, 360, and Mollweide projection versions of black hole plunge and flyby videos.

A group of scientists has predicted that Roman could find a class of elusive “featherweight” black holes.

Access an infographic about and an artist's concept of primordial black holes.

Test your sonification knowledge by matching sound to image in this quiz.

After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM studied the monster black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 4151.

Black holes — what are they really? Watch the first episode of the “Astro-Investigates” series.

Black holes can’t emit their own light, but matter around them can create quite a light show. Download these wallpapers for your screens.

This black hole just wants to be left alone, but they’ll keep an eye on your docs and apps if you ask nicely. Available for desktops and smartphones.

Using Chandra, astronomers located an exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

In images from NASA’s retired Spitzer, streams of dust thousands of light-years long flow toward the heart of the Andromeda galaxy.

This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.

This 360-degree video lets viewers look all around during a one-way trip into a black hole.

This page contains selected stills with interesting details from a visualization of a plunge into a black hole produced on a NASA supercomputer.