A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole.

A new computer simulation suggests this prolonged existence of accretion disks may owe itself to each disk being almost completely controlled by the magnetic fields of its respective black hole.

These jets shoot out from the direct vicinity of the black hole in two opposite directions, sustained and guided by magnetic fields in the “accretion disk” of material: the disk formed by gas swirling ...

The matter swirling around the black hole glows, and is called an accretion disk. Occasionally, matter falls into the gaping maw of the black hole, causing a brilliant flash of light—this is how ...

Matter falling toward a black hole forms an accretion disk — a hot, swirling ring of particles that appears like a bright ... "It's like breaking the light into a rainbow and measuring how much energy ...

Researchers, such as Roberto Maiolino from the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, estimate that these "super-accretion" episodes could last between 5 and 10 million years. For the majority of the time, ...

Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s edges and the gas in the accretion disc becomes extremely hot.

Black holes cannot be directly observed, but instead they are detected by the tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc, which forms near the black hole's edges. The gas in the accretion disc ...

Black holes cannot be directly observed, but instead they are detected by the tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disk, which forms near the black hole's edges. The gas in the accretion disk ...

These jets shoot out from the direct vicinity of the black hole in two opposite directions, sustained and guided by magnetic fields in the "accretion disk" of material: the disk formed by gas ...