The research team created a spinning disk of plasma that mimics the superheated gas in accretion disks that gradually feed black holes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Lurking in the darkness of space, black holes are notorious for shredding stars that venture too close, and then gobbling them up. But astronomers have had only a rudimentary understanding of that ...

Gas swirls around a black hole due to its intense gravity, forming an accretion disk. These accretion disks, being among the most efficient energy conversion mechanisms in the universe, emit light and ...