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

real-time look yet at how matter swirls around supermassive black holes. The findings were published Jan. 22 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. As matter falls into a black hole, it also ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

“This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time ... around a supermassive black hole.

"The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed before in real-time." Astronomers have, for the first time, watched the moment a feeding supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant ...

Now, the black ... time.” In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole.

Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black ... as the black hole's corona went dark, then slowly rebuilt itself over time. For a while, the newly reformed corona ...

In 2018, a supermassive black hole called 1ES 1927+654 took astronomers by surprise by changing from a relatively inactive black hole to an extremely bright one. It was the first time a ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...