A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

How does the universe work? What are black holes, neutron stars, and dark energy? This video attempts to explain astrophysics ...

A computer-based study is simulating the behaviour of massive cosmic jets in a virtual universe to help us understand how ...

Some of the warm gas flows back into the black hole, fuelling more outbursts and continuing the cycle. One key discovery was that the brightness of hot gas is linked to the brightness of warm gas ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

These tendrils of gas are key to sustaining the black holes' feeding cycle, according to the study, which was published Jan. 27 in the journal Nature Astronomy. —'Impossible' black holes ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

"These observations provide a more complete picture of the black hole's environment and its dynamics." It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the ...

These massive black holes were found to be exerting influence over their surroundings in ways that cause hot gas to cool before flowing back toward them. The self-sustaining cycle ensures the ...