Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

For a while, the newly reformed corona — a cloud of highly energetic plasma and ... in an accretion disk. The cooler environment of the disk can emit optical and ultraviolet light, but rarely ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this supermassive black hole feasts upon.

The features include the launch of a plasma jet moving at nearly one-third the speed of light and unusual ... within the black hole's accretion disk. In this scenario, each rise and fall of ...

not even light, can escape. In their new study, the researchers used data collected from M87* in 2017 and 2018 to both image and create computer models of the black hole's accretion disk.

For a while, the newly reformed corona—a cloud of highly energetic plasma and ... in an accretion disk. The cooler environment of the disk can emit optical and ultraviolet light, but rarely ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.