The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

According to the team’s recent study—published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters—the black hole’s accretion disk is burbling with energetic flares, offering hints at how black ...

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 ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and dust surrounding it.

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 researchers propose that this ejection resulted from the collision of two galaxies, causing their central black holes to ...

DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...