The new observations, taken with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), provide the most detailed, real-time look yet at how matter swirls around supermassive black holes. The findings were published Jan.

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Scientists are constantly unraveling the universe’s greatest riddles, but many fundamental puzzles remain unsolved. How did life first emerge on Earth? What ...

“This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time.” The black hole, the official name of which is a ...

behavior which has never been monitored in real time for a supermassive black hole. Imaging also clearly shows a pair of oppositely directed plasma jets forming near the black hole and expanding ...

behavior which has never been monitored in real time for a supermassive black hole. Some of the highest-resolution imaging of radio frequency emissions was collected using a technique called Very ...

PBS Space Time is available to stream on pbs.org and ... non-shining bodies like brown dwarfs or neutron stars or even black holes. But as we ruled out most of the possible mass ranges ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

The physical origin of this effect is that the information pattern inside the black hole written in memory modes ... of PBHs after the half-decay time. This quantum effect opens up a new mass ...