A new study has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics that proposes two new models of black ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

The black hole couldn’t handle all the material it had pulled in, so it expelled some of it in a powerful outflow. This outflow was moving at 27% the speed of light, or about 80,000 kilometers ...

An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star is spaghettified and the remains form an accretion disk around the black hole. Typically, about half the star’s mass is drawn into ...

If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event. The other half forms a Frisbee-shaped accretion disk around the black hole itself.

NASA’s Chandra captured black hole over 300,000 light years away Astronomers focused on two supermassive black holes, one is J1405+0415 and another is J1610+1811 Each of them is releasing jets ...

Imagine losing a giant black hole—yes, the kind that swallows stars—and then casually finding it again like it was hiding behind the cosmic couch. 🕳️🌌 In this video, we dive ...

More information: Michael Drew et al, New Estimates of the Spin and Accretion Rate of the Black Hole M87*, The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2025). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adc90e ...

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.

Three supermassive black holes are gobbling up stars 10 times the size of the sun. Shredding them is creating the biggest explosions since the dawn of the universe.

Its rotation axis points to the Earth. In addition, the emission near the black hole is mainly caused by extremely hot electrons in the surrounding accretion disk and not by a so-called jet.