Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

18, 2025 — 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 ...

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

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 ...

so it all gathers in orbit around the black hole and forms an accretion disk. Friction happens within the disk, which generates large amounts of light radiation that can be seen and measured by ...

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking black hole moving at over 1,000 km/s, believed to have been ejected after ...

The early universe seems to be filled with unexpected Little Red Dots that astronomers have struggled to explain. Now one astrophysicist has proposed an answer.

"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 ...

This discovery by Webb provides strong evidence that the giant planets in HR 8799 formed through core accretion, much like ...