"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

Binary black holes, systems consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other, synchronize their spins before ...

If the putative object were a smaller black hole, it would’ve plunged headlong through the accretion disk to merge with its supermassive mate—and if it were a normal star, it should’ve been ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how they are formed and where they were born. You can tell a lot about a human being's ancestry from their general characteristics. A child can have ...

"We find that about 10 billion years ago, black holes acquired their mass primarily through eating things," Fries explained. The early fast spin rate implies that most supermassive black holes ...

could be due to a "tidal disruption event," where a large object like a star or cloud of gas gets too close to an inactive black hole and artificially brightens it for just a few years ...

Observations also hint at an unseen star that may be teetering on the brink of this black hole, but remarkably resisting being swept into the abyss. Studying this doom-defying star could provide ...

Jets from black holes trigger cooling in the hot gas, causing it to condense into warm filaments. These filaments then flow toward the black hole, feeding it, and the cycle repeats. Brightness ...

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