An illustration of a black hole with an accretion disk, accompanied by diagrams showcasing the team's research. Astronomers have observed the outer edge of a disk of matter surrounding a feeding ...

Instead of just pointing in one direction, like most black hole jets, this one is sweeping in a curvy S-shaped pathway.

An artist's interpretation of a black hole's accretion disk An artist's interpretation of a black hole's accretion disk For the first time ever, scientists have measured the exact size of the disk of ...

This is the first time that disk-jet co-precession has been clearly observed in a black hole system, which is truly exciting, ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

A close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in the accretion disk surrounding the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Dr. LU Xing, an associate researcher from the Shanghai ...

Spin transfer Artist’s impression of an accretion disc surrounding a black hole. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/oorka) Researchers in France have created a new experiment that could improve our understanding ...

The answer here is that reality is far more complex than the pictures you reference. At present, our technology does not allow us to get a clear snapshot of the material accreting onto Sagittarius A* ...

An image of Pōwehi, a supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87. This image, which is the most detailed to date taken of a black hole, uses polarized light to reveal relativistic jets (in ...

Quasars are the brilliant cores of remote galaxies, at the hearts of which lie supermassive black holes that can generate enough power to outshine the Sun a trillion times. These mighty power sources ...

Observations of the interacting binary star using telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that the disks of hot gas that accumulate around a wide ...