Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...
A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.
"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe." ...
Supermassive black holes lurk all throughout the known universe, but catching one in the act of devouring its cosmic dinner doesn't happen all that often. In fact, unless a black hole is actively in ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...
Some galaxies could grow so large by consuming one star from a binary system. April 8, 2012— -- For years, astronomers have puzzled over the diet needed to bulk up supermassive black holes – ...