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

The new observations, taken with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), provide the most detailed, real-time look yet ... computer models of the black hole's accretion disk. They noticed that the ...

A new computer simulation suggests this prolonged existence of accretion disks may owe itself to each disk being almost completely controlled by the magnetic fields of its respective black hole.

allows us to probe the properties of the black hole itself. We numerically model the appearance of these systems in X-rays (see Fig. 1). While current X-ray observatories cannot directly image the ...

Studying it may help scientists figure out how particles behave near black holes. Matter falling toward a black hole forms an accretion disk — a hot, swirling ring of particles that appears like a ...

Here's a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of ...

Scientists know that a black hole's intense gravitational pull creates an accretion disk, or a swirling mass of gas, dust, plasma, and other particles that are eventually swallowed by the black ...

But outside the event horizon, the black hole’s surrounding environment is extremely bright, as it is crowded with a pancake of superheated gas and dust known as an accretion disk. That material ...

It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the supermassive black hole M87* aren't pretty. That is what astronomers discovered when assessing turbulence in the ...

Cooling electrons in the black hole’s accretion disk—the superheated, glowing matter surrounding the object—release energy to power the flares. The electrons’ role in black hole flares was ...

However, "when we saw it was real, it was very exciting," astrophysicist ... Now hovering at the inner edge of the black hole's accretion disk, this stellar remnant might occasionally shed some ...