The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite ...

In an attempt to tackle these questions, a research team simulated the action of a so-called accretion disk around a supermassive black hole; not only could this simulation grant crucial insights ...

Some of this glowing matter envelops the black hole in a whirling region called an accretion disk. Even the matter that starts falling into a black hole isn't necessarily there to stay.

The analyses also indicate that turbulence within the rotating envelope of gas that surrounds the black hole – the accretion disc – plays a role in changing its appearance. The first image of M87*’s ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ... Feb. 13, 2025 — Traditional black holes, as predicted by ...

The stellar wind from a nearby blue supergiant star is streaming into the black hole, forming an accretion disc about the black hole's axis of rotation. Some of that accreted material is then cast ...

We know that regular supernovas pose no existential threat to life on Earth in the near-term. But there are other varieties ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...