Astronomers have made a major breakthrough in understanding the mysterious coronae of black holes, leveraging cutting-edge ...

If you were lucky enough to observe a total eclipse, you are certain to remember the halo of brilliant light around the Moon ...

Groundbreaking research using data from NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission has revealed new insights into the shape and properties of a black hole's corona, a key structure ...

If you’ve ever witnessed a solar eclipse, you might recall the Sun’s corona — its outermost atmosphere — a halo of glowing ...

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...

New research reveals supermassive black holes, billions of times the mass of the sun, formed much more rapidly than ...

In an article published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal, new evidence suggests how supermassive black holes, with ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light.

A recent study sheds light on how supermassive black holes formed so quickly within the first billion years after the Big ...

These fiery images are the clearest views we have ever had of the sun, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Solar Orbiter, ...

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...