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 ...

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole." Without a doubt, since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

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 ...

Leading the research, scientist Lior Shamir suggested two possibilities for this unexpected pattern. The first is that the universe has been rotating since its inception, lending credence to the Black ...

For example, any primordial black hole smaller than 10 12 kg would have already evaporated thanks to Hawking radiation. Anything larger than 10 20 kg would gravitationally lens stars in the Milky Way.

We know that Sagittarius A* (Sag A*), the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, is supermassive and rotates rapidly, dragging space-time along with it. And this small detail—its rotational ...

Yet, an exciting discovery has unveiled an even more dramatic future: the Milky Way is headed toward a collision with a supermassive black hole. This black hole, nestled in the Large Magellanic ...

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 ...

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A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...