An historic black hole just made another splash: it’s now the first ever confirmed to be spinning. Forming the center of its galaxy 55 million light years away, the supermassive black hole M87* was ...

Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ...

Why it matters: The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a large telescope array comprising eight individual telescopes situated at six distinct geographical locations. The EHT collaboration played a ...

In a recent study published in Nature, an international team of researchers led by Cardiff University in the United Kingdom have observed a binary black hole system that exbibits peculiar behavior, ...

Astronomers have made the first direct observation of a spinning black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime, a phenomenon known as Lense-Thirring precession. This rare detection, recently ...