What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

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Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...

First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

Feeding supermassive black holes are more common in the cosmos than previously suspected. What could possibly hide such ravenous cosmic titans?

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

The way this "accretion disk" of infalling matter spins can tell scientists a lot about a particular black hole — for example, its size and its orientation in space. It also offers insight into ...