Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process. Anyone who has experienced the blistering pain associated with biting ...

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 ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

It was players who destroyed that planet last year by turning it into a black hole as a means toward eradicating a mutated Terminid Super Colony of their own unintentional making. It was the first ...

Another study that year showed that a cool gas halo surrounds Sagittarius A*, which gives unprecedented insight into what the environment around a black hole looks like. So far, astronomers have ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

it's pulled into the black hole's accretion disk, which funnels the gas toward the hole itself. Essentially, the cool gas becomes the next course in the black hole's meal. NASA notes that these ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...

The blue regions represent X-rays emitted by super hot gas by the ... may have significance beyond black hole feeding mechanisms, too. That's because cool filaments of gas are thought to supply ...