Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

Specifically, it is a supermassive blackhole that is in the process of waking up. It was first seen in 2019 emitting bursts ...

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has ...

Black holes are one of our Universe’s greatest mysteries. What are they made of? What happens after they gobble something up?

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

Called an accretion disk, this ring of matter around Sagittarius A* spewed everything from brief flickers that only last a few seconds to incredibly bright daily eruptions to even faint flickers ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the most powerful engines in the universe. These giants sit at the centers of galaxies, ...

Gas swirls around a black hole (BH) owing to the intense gravity of the BH, forming an accretion disk. These accretion disks, being among the most efficient energy conversion mechanisms in the ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

Known as an accretion disk, it's hot, contains a steady flow of materials like gas or plasma, and flickers constantly. The disks emit light that can be detected using infrared and X-ray ...

An accretion disk, as the name implies, is a disk-shaped gas that spirals inwards towards a central black hole. There is a great interest in studying the unique and extreme properties of black holes.