Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes

A strange area around black holes called the “plunging region” has been spotted for the first time. This area, where matter stops circling a black hole and instead falls straight in, was predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, but it has never been observed before. Studying plunging regions could teach us about how black holes form and evolve, as well as reveal new information about the fundamental nature of space-time. When any matter gets too close to a …