Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

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 ...

As matter orbits outside the event horizon, it gradually heats up, creating a disk of glowing material around the black hole called an ... ultraviolet (UV) light. The accretion disk’s UV ...

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 ...

Despite being cosmic monsters that shape the entire galaxies around them ... dust — the accretion disk — rotates. "The challenge lies in separating the spin of the black hole from the spin ...

Despite being cosmic monsters that shape the entire galaxies around them ... (Left) Artist’s impressions of a black hole and its accretion disk with different spins. (Right) the corresponding ...

The bright, hot disk surrounding the supermassive black hole emits an enormous amount of light that drives the dust apart as if the ... when interacting with gas and particles in the environment ...

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

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

That is what astronomers discovered when assessing turbulence in the stream of matter, or "accretion ... whipping around the black hole's event horizon at near the speed of light.

Such changes, called millihertz quasiperiodic oscillations, are difficult to detect around supermassive ... an object orbiting within the black hole's accretion disk. In this scenario, each ...