Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

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.

Landsat 8 When was it taken? Jan. 2, 2022 This stunning satellite photo shows one of the world's most famous and potentially dangerous volcanoes, Mount Vesuvius, playing a game of peek-a-boo with an ...

“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. Some of the highest-resolution imaging of radio frequency emissions was collected using a technique called Very ...

(Image: UMBC) After the major increase in activity began in 2018, which included nearly a year of extremely high levels of X-ray emission, the black hole quieted down again by 2020—only to ...