Astronomers have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days ...

Quasars draw light from the gravitational energy of the central black hole. Material around the black hole falls in, and as it does so it compresses and heats up, releasing enormous amounts of ...

“You can be really very close to a black hole and happily, circularly orbit,” says Andrew Mummery, a physicist at the University of Oxford. But as you draw nearer, a black hole’s ...

Space-time is not a flat, two-dimensional grid; we just need to draw it that way on the page. So a black hole is not really a funnel-shaped object sitting out in space and sucking down matter in ...

The new image of the black hole in the Messier 87 galaxy. L. Medeiros (Institute for Advanced Study), D. Psaltis (Georgia Tech), T. Lauer (NSF’s NOIRLab), and F. Ozel (Georgia Tech) In 2019 ...

A number of celestial scenarios can cause a galaxy to suddenly brighten, such as supernova explosions or when stars draw too near to black holes and become torn apart during a phenomenon called ...

Astronomers recently used artificial intelligence to fine-tune the first-ever image of a black hole, captured in 2019 ... its gravity warped space-time, drawing matter, energy and even light ...