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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

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 ...