Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

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

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

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand ... rightarrow{neutron~star,~or~a~black~hole~(depending~on~size)}\) After the main sequence period ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward them in a cosmic feeding process.

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 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 ...