An illustration of a black hole with an accretion disk, accompanied by diagrams showcasing the team's research. Astronomers have observed the outer edge of a disk of matter surrounding a feeding ...

Spin transfer Artist’s impression of an accretion disc surrounding a black hole. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/oorka) Researchers in France have created a new experiment that could improve our understanding ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

Quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) are likely powered by matter accretion onto a super-massive black hole located at their center. Before being swallowed by the black hole, matter spirals ...

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with other researchers, has developed a new method to estimate how stellar-mass compact objects ...

Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ...

An image of Pōwehi, a supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87. This image, which is the most detailed to date taken of a black hole, uses polarized light to reveal relativistic jets (in ...

Figure 1: Pre-outburst, outburst and brightness-ratio images of S255IR NIRS 3. Figure 2: Pre- and outburst K-band spectra of S255IR NIRS 3 (left) and its redshifted outflow cavity (right). The ...

In April, scientists stunned the world when they unveiled the first-ever picture of a supermassive black hole. Months later, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is helping fill in ...

An international scientific team has revealed for the first time the magnetic field transport processes in the accretion flow of a black hole and the formation of a "MAD"—a magnetically arrested ...

Carl E. Granrud, Albert Yonas, Isabel M. Smith, Martha E. Arterberry, Marcia L. Glicksman and Ann C. Sorknes Based on Gibson's hypothesis that accretion and deletion of texture in the optic array ...