Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

This "accretion disk" in turn generates a super-heated jet of charged particles that are ejected from the black hole at ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Russian astronomers from the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) have analyzed long-term observational data of a peculiar microquasar designated SS 433. Results of the new study, published May ...

The accretion disk of the black hole is extremely bright in X-rays and is accreting matter at a rate 40 times the theoretical limit — offering new insight into early black-hole growth.

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

It’s most likely sloshing about in an accretion disk outside that boundary. But explaining how these black hole burps can occur so late is challenging. What’s going on?

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected powerful black hole jets emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away. These jets, formed durin ...

A group of disc golfers witnessed a baby hammerhead shark fall from the sky while in the middle of a game in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, resident Jonathan Marlowe, 44, told ABC News.