"In classical general relativity, a black hole prevents any particle or form of radiation from escaping from its cosmic prison," French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet explains in a 2016 review ...

A recreation of the groundbreaking 1979 paper Image of a Spherical Black Hole with Thin Accretion Disk (link) by Jean-Pierre Luminet.

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"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves ...

Every big galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, but scientists are still trying to fully understand how these ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

Quasars are distant galaxies ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves emitted by a black hole. Using high precision computing and a new ...