A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

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A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers studied the jets of a black hole at the center of Centaurus A, watching ...

"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, ...

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...

LID-568 was previously identified by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but observing it was challenging due to its faint ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.