A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Scientists know that a black hole's intense gravitational pull creates an accretion disk, or a swirling mass of gas, dust, plasma, and other particles that are eventually swallowed by the black ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

This work highlights the transformative potential of observing the black hole evolving in time ... due to turbulence in the accretion disk. This behavior is consistent with predictions from ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion, EP240408A, detected in 2023, may reveal a new black hole phenomenon. Scientists are ...