Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Supermassive black holes exist at the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies, with masses of millions or even billions of times that of the sun.In some cases, these black holes are surrounded by ...

Focus on the X-Ray Radiation From Accretion Disks. When a massive star falls into a mass concentration so dense that light cannot escape its gravitational pull, the result is a black hole.

Almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. An international research team has recently observed the Circinus galaxy, which is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky ...

The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million light-years away—was found to have produced flashes of light known as quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs).

Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena, despite how much we continue to learn about them. While considered a mathematical possibility for many years, the first black hole wasn ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...

Izumi and his colleagues initially captured, for the first time, the accretion flow heading towards the supermassive black hole within the high-density gas disk that extends over several light ...

The activity may result from a small object interacting with the black hole's accretion disk, rather than star destruction. This event offers a unique opportunity to study black hole behavior and ...

The jet is likely produced by the fact that the accretion disk around the black hole doesn’t spin as fast as the black hole itself. A lot about black holes , we currently take on faith—and on ...