For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

The Sun is surrounded by an atmosphere of plasma that we call the corona. It is nearly 1 million degrees Celsius (1.8 million ...

Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...

"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light ...

AI-generated representation of an accreting supermassive black hole, surrounded by gas spiralling toward it along the ...

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...

Despite decades of study, black holes are still one of the most puzzling objects in the Universe. As we know from Einstein’s ...

If you were lucky enough to observe a total eclipse, you are certain to remember the halo of brilliant light around the Moon ...

New evidence has been discovered explaining how supermassive black holes formed in the first billion years of the Universe's ...

Black holes are one of the most enigmatic stellar objects. While best known for swallowing up their surroundings into a ...