"The disks are almost completely controlled by the magnetic fields." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Supermassive black holes are ...

To understand the mysteries surrounding black holes, researchers at Tohoku University have created a simulation of accretion disk turbulence that possesses the highest-resolution currently available.

Warning: Objects orbiting black hole may appear closer than they actually are. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Viewed straight-on ...

A schematic view of the history of the accretion disk and the intruding object. The three plots starting from the bottom left are snapshots from the numerical simulation, depicting the system at the ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the matter spiralling into them forms a hot, dense accretion disc that radiates ...

Example of a simulation of how the gas orbits the black hole in the center of our Milky Way and emits radio waves at 1.3 mm. First image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Making of the ...

Astrophysicists have created terrifying simulations that reveal how black holes naturally create dazzling displays detected from billions of light-years away. In the stunning imagery, the black holes ...

Black holes are always fascinating, and a new simulation adds to their mystery. You likely did not previously associate them with fluffy angel-food cake, but researchers at Caltech recently put ...

Supermassive black holes may tear apart and devour their disk of surrounding dust and gas at a shocking speed, perhaps explaining the behavior of a mysterious class of rapidly brightening quasar.

Artistic image of accretion disk turbulence. The inset is the magnetic field fluctuations computed by the simulation of this study. Researchers at Tohoku University and Utsunomiya University have made ...

A close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in the accretion disk surrounding the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Dr. LU Xing, an associate researcher from the Shanghai ...