Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

NASA discovered black holes fueling their own growth by cooling gas, creating a cycle of jets, filaments, and feeding, ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

These eruptions are observed in binary star systems and suggest a surprising link between the extreme environment surrounding ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

Now, astronomers discovered that one of those shenanigans was a colossal belch – a gamma-ray eruption from one of the powerful jets of plasma launched from the black hole's poles as it feeds.

Scientists have published a spectacular new polarised light image of the strong magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Seen in polarised light for ...

confirming repeated eruptions. The findings are crucial for understanding how stellar debris interacts with other objects near black holes. Continued Monitoring by NASA’s NICER Instrument NASA's ...