Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

matching theoretical predictions for the shadow of a 6.5 billion solar-mass black hole. The brightest part of the ring is shifted 30 degrees counter-clockwise, due to turbulence in the accretion disk.

“The shift in the brightest region is a natural consequence of turbulence in the accretion disk around the black hole,” explains Abhishek Joshi, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois ...

The speed at which a black hole spins is difficult to distinguish from the speed at which the surrounding flattened cloud of gas and dust — the accretion disk — rotates. "The challenge lies in ...

Scientists know that a black hole's intense gravitational pull creates an accretion disk, or a swirling mass of gas, dust, plasma, and other particles that are eventually swallowed by the black ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

How much does a black hole change in a year? Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole to be imaged — the supermassive black hole M87*, , which ...

matching theoretical predictions for the shadow of a 6.5 billion solar-mass black hole. The brightest part of the ring is shifted 30 degrees counter-clockwise, due to turbulence in the accretion disk.

Observations from 2017 and 2018 by the Event Horizon Telescope have enhanced understanding of the supermassive black hole M87*, focusing on its turbulent accretion flow.

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the centre of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...