At that time, it began emitting radio waves at 60 times the previous intensity over just a few months, behavior which has never been monitored in real time for a supermassive black hole.

A large international team of scientists observed a rare event in real time: a dramatic increase in radio emission and the formation of plasma jets from a black hole in the galaxy 1ES 1927+654, 270 ...

The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape, formed from collapsed massive stars. Black holes form when massive stars collapse under their ...

“The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed before in real time,” she said. Meyer presented the findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, further exploring how ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

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

Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the black hole's edge.

Essentially, her team witnessed the birth of jets from a supermassive black hole, in real time. Meyer is lead author on a paper outlining the discovery, published Jan. 13 in The Astrophysical ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into one is both interesting and terrifying. Now, a group of astronomers ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars." Astronomers have detected the largest black hole-launched jet ever ...