Menu
What are you looking for?

Top resources for

Featured topic

A large black hole has a spinning disk around it. It also has a magnetic field represented as an orange cone on top of the black hole. A tiny black hole punches in and out through the disk as it orbits the larger one. Plumes from the large disk emerge when the tiny black hole travels. The plumes are especially strong in the magnetic fields.

Spotlight: Mar 31, 2024

A black hole at the center of a distant galaxy has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days. These “hiccups” suggest black hole accretion disks may be more varied than previously thought, possibly containing other black holes, and even entire stars.

Mar 31, 2024

Full story
Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT