Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Learn why a black hole is becoming active and why experts still can't explain the source of its regular, periodic pattern of ...

Active black holes have a pancake-shaped structure around them called an accretion disk, which contains hot, electrically charged gas. The plasma that makes up the accretion disk comes from farther ...

If an unlucky star swings too close, it gets torn apart. The star's shattered material becomes a stream that spins rapidly around the black hole, forming what is called an accretion disk that is ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Scientists have observed a previously inactive supermassive black hole producing regular, powerful X-ray eruptions that challenge existing models.

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...