Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...

Sometimes, more matter collects around the event horizon than the black hole can take in at once, so it all gathers in orbit around the black hole and forms an accretion disk. Friction happens ...

Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) The black hole at the center of our galaxy is experiencing a flurry of flares, ranging from flickers to brilliant eruptions, according to a team ...

Astronomers have observed a flare of light near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. These bursts happen daily; some last seconds, others shine for a ...

It is a terrifying scenario straight out of science fiction. So, what would happen if you were struck by a primordial black hole? We already know that coming into contact with a stellar-mass ...

A tiny black hole passing through the body could cause damage depending on its mass. Black holes with masses similar to asteroids, ranging from 10 13 to 10 19 kg, could exert tidal forces and ...

Astronomers have discovered an ultramassive black hole 36 billion times heavier than the Sun in the galaxy LRG 3-757. This discovery challenges current understanding of black holes and could ...

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer ...

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Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive black hole — and it's frothing with unusual activity. Situated 26,000 light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded never-before-seen images of the hot disc swirling around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It found the disc constantly ...

There’s a pretty hot party raging in the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Using new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astrophysicists found that the ...