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 ...

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

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

New research reveals supermassive black holes, billions of times the mass of the sun, formed much more rapidly than ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

An immersive music production unfolding the story of black holes as engines of gravity, light, and creation through a ...