The monster black hole lurking at the center of galaxy M87 is an absolute beast. It is one of the largest in our vicinity and was the ideal first target for the Event Horizon Telescope. Scientists ...

A black hole is an object so massive that it warps the fabric of space-time, and its gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from it.

The vibrant pops are thought to be the result of plasma being squeezed by the black hole's accretion disk.

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust.

However, the longer and brighter flares are more similar to tidal waves and are caused by more significant events. The minor disturbances within the accretion disk likely generate the faint flickers.

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

The brightest part of the ring is shifted 30 degrees counter-clockwise, due to turbulence in the accretion disk. This behaviour is consistent with predictions from the 2017 analysis, which expected ...

Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ...

To understand the mysteries surrounding black holes, researchers at Tohoku University have created a simulation of accretion disk turbulence that possesses the highest-resolution currently available.