A research team at the University of Michigan, led by Enrico Rinaldi, has taken an innovative approach to studying black ...

Quasars are formed when supermassive black holes are surrounded by a wealth of gas and dust upon which they can feed. This material generates a flattened, swirling ... disk is fed into the central ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole ... end to end Shi En Kim The black hole, if confirmed, is in the star cluster Omega Centauri, about ...

Astronomers have detected an enormous black hole-powered jet that stretches an astonishing 200,000 light-years, making it ...

In a stunning astronomical discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a spectacular image of HH 30, a ...

Scientists have proposed a new type of dark matter called ultra self-interacting dark matter to explain how supermassive black holes grew quickly. Unlike regular dark matter, this type interacts ...

The results support a model where outbursts from the black holes trigger hot gas to cool and form narrow filaments of warm gas. Turbulence in the gas also plays an important role in this triggering ...

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

By unleashing powerful jets, or outbursts, the black holes kickstart a process to cool hot gas and form warm filaments that allow for the – let's say – now-edible gas to flow back into the ...

Observations from telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed quasars — extremely bright objects powered by supermassive black holes — at these early epochs, and they boast ...