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He develops plasma heating models to help researchers better understand the polarized emission around black holes. He modeled and simulated the plasma physics underlying the Sagittarius A* image ...
A team of researchers has engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the physics of black holes and their ...
A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...
Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...
A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!
In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...
While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the ...