The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

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Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

According to the authors of that paper, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, which is known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is spinning close to its maximum speed, much faster than we previously ...

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They speculate that it would only require a "modest" space mission working in unison with a telescope already on the ground.

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

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A cosmic ballet unfolds around black holes, where disks of matter form due to their gravity. These disks, called accretion disks, produce intense light and plasma jets. A new study reveals that ...

All matter that approaches a black hole takes on the form of a spiraling disk. This disk whirls around at such a rapid pace that the material within it glows white-hot and ionizes, transforming into a ...

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