Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...
Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...
"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...
What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, has leveraged quantum computing and machine learning to analyze the quantum ...
The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...
Supermassive black holes, regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to escape, are often considered terrors of the known universe.
In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...