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Simulating the Accretion Disk Around a Black Hole
Black holes are by their very nature, challenging to observe and difficult to spot. It's usually observations of the accretion…
Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope To Unlock Mysteries of Black Holes
The prospect of actually resolving the event horizon of black holes feels like the stuff of science fiction yet it…
What’s Next for the Event Horizon Telescope? Twelve Possible New Targets
Both the Milky Way and a galaxy known as M87 have supermassive black holes at their core. These are the…
Black Holes: Why study them? What makes them so fascinating?
Over the last few months, Universe Today has explored a plethora of scientific fields, including impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets,…
After Swirling Around a Black Hole, Matter Just Falls Straight In
The physics surrounding black holes is just plain weird. A gravitational well so strong that not even light can escape…
Fall Into a Black Hole With this New NASA Simulation
No human being will ever encounter a black hole. But we can't stop wondering what it would be like to…
Gravastars are an Alternative Theory to Black Holes. Here's What They'd Look Like
Astronomers continue to find more and more evidence of black holes, but there's an alternative theory that could explain the…
A New Idea to Harness Energy From Black Holes
A new study by an international team shows how the physics of a black hole's event horizon could allow us…
Light Behaves Really Strangely Around a Black Hole
A new study led by Caltech researchers show that light can be reflected off of a black hole's disk by…
How Researchers Produce Sharp Images of a Black Hole
A new study by members of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has shown how new images of black…