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 ...

An international research team led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University has discovered an extraordinary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

To understand the mysteries surrounding black holes, researchers at Tohoku University have created a simulation of accretion disk turbulence that possesses the highest-resolution currently available.

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

Researchers accidentally stumbled on a way to measure the size of the accretion disks of dust, gas and plasma that surround black holes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes don't just consume matter—they manage it, choosing ...

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 ...

can stop farther out,” said Jeffrey McClintock of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who led the Chandra observations. “The Chandra data indicate that this accretion disk gets no closer ...

Quasars initially confused astronomers when they were discovered. First identified as sources of radio-frequency radiation, later observations showed that the objects had optical counterparts that ...