It appears this white dwarf is not making a death plunge but rather has stabilized its orbit around the black hole ...

These images show different examples of black holes and accretion disks with various spin configurations: retrograde (black ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...

Many simulations suggest that flares in Sgr A* are caused by the bunching of magnetic field lines in the supermassive black hole’s turbulent accretion disk. When two magnetic field lines approach they ...

International astronomers have discovered new features in a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 ...

An international research team, including Newcastle University’s Dr Adam Ingram, has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays ...

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...