An actively feeding black hole surrounds itself with a disk of hot gas and dust that flickers like a campfire. Astronomers have now found that monitoring changes in those flickers can reveal something ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

NASA has released an intriguing and educational visualization of a black hole surrounded by a distorted disk of shining matter. The animation reveals how the powerful gravitational influence of a ...

As the most massive objects in existence, black holes usually have accretion disks, rings of gas and other materials that reach blazing hot temperatures, sometimes even emitting powerful, luminous ...

The new observations help explain how accretion disks around black holes take shape. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Lurking in ...

Warning: Objects orbiting black hole may appear closer than they actually are. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Viewed straight-on ...

In April, scientists stunned the world when they unveiled the first-ever picture of a supermassive black hole. Months later, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is helping fill in ...