Black holes, often depicted as cosmic predators ... These include: Magnetorotational Instability (MRI): This instability occurs in regions where angular velocity decreases outward, generating ...

"This state can be essentially maintained forever, and we think this is the state in which plasmas are commonly found around black holes. So, we cooked up a simulation where we model the MRI ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...

Back when the LHC was still being planned, some scientists believed that it would create a black hole, prompting the Italian physicist Francesco Calogero to write an essay in 2000 called “Might ...

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 ...

His idea was controversial, but his research paved the way to the discovery of black holes. Today, UChicago scientists are conducting groundbreaking research on black holes and what they can tell us ...

A "fast-feeding" black hole that appeared to defy physics is actually pretty ordinary, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal. In November 2024, astronomers using JWST ...