Having previously observed the bright halo of matter whipping around the black hole at near-light-speeds ... The way this "accretion disk" of infalling matter spins can tell scientists a lot ...

The 2018 observations confirmed the luminous ring seen in 2017, with a diameter of about 43 microarcseconds, matching theoretical predictions for the shadow of a 6.5 billion solar-mass black hole. The ...

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

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared, using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

The brightest part of the ring is shifted 30 degrees counter-clockwise, due to turbulence in the accretion disk ... in light of the complementary observations of the black hole's shadow by ...

The 2018 observations confirmed the luminous ring seen in 2017, with a diameter of about 43 microarcseconds, matching theoretical predictions for the shadow of a 6.5 billion solar-mass black hole. The ...

Black holes are ultra-dense objects with gravitational fields so fierce that not even light can escape their bounds beyond a point called the ... black hole’s accretion disk—the superheated ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

These filaments support a pre-existing theory regarding black holes' ability to "cook" for themselves. Scientists know that a black hole's intense gravitational pull creates an accretion disk ...

The brightest part of the ring is shifted 30 degrees counter-clockwise, due to turbulence in the accretion disk ... in light of the complementary observations of the black hole's shadow by ...