7, 2024 — Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral ...

They found that this emission comes from the accretion disk and the ionized plasma around the two supermassive black holes in the system. Santanu Mondal, a Ramanujam Fellow at the Indian Institute of ...

This galactic interaction can reshape orbits, potentially driving black holes or even distant stars toward extreme collisions. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery was a watershed moment in physics and astrophysics, heralding an ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the ...