It’s not a movie. It’s a window into reality, one now rendered by the world’s most powerful supercomputers. This simulation is a major leap toward understanding how the brightest black holes function, ...

New simulations show flickering black hole signals arise from unstable shocks inside accretion discs, revealing how matter ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have unravelled the mystery behind an intriguing flicker that they noticed in black hole systems, using advanced computer simulations. Black holes, the most compact objects in the ...

A Los Alamos simulation of an accretion disk after the collision of two neutron stars. This event generates both light (blue) and heavy (red) elements. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...