Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

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

This material generates a flattened, swirling cloud of gas and dust called an accretion disk around the black hole. The tremendous mass of the supermassive black hole generates tidal forces and ...

Having previously observed the bright halo of matter whipping around the black hole at ... and create computer models of the black hole's accretion disk. They noticed that the brightest section ...

matching theoretical predictions for the shadow of a 6.5 billion solar-mass black hole. The brightest part of the ring is shifted 30 degrees counter-clockwise, due to turbulence in the accretion disk.

There's a disk around the black hole that glows more brightly the more material there is. If this accretion disk glows brightly enough, it's called an active supermassive black hole. The AGN that ...

The mapping project also made detailed observations of the associated accretion disks. Those are the areas nearest the black hole where matter accumulates and heats up as it spirals in.

Influence of a black hole's spin: First evidence of precession in ultraluminous accretion disks Oct 2, 2024 Re-analysis of Milky Way's central supermassive black hole shows elongated structure ...

Despite being cosmic monsters that shape the entire galaxies around them ... (Left) Artist’s impressions of a black hole and its accretion disk with different spins. (Right) the corresponding ...