The inner edge of the gas disk rapidly shrinks towards the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) near the stellar black hole, triggering the eruption of a plasma jet. The jet continues to erupt ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of light that forms around the black hole when a star travels too close and is broken apart in ...

Artist’s impression of the accretion disc around the massive black hole Ansky and its interaction ... "When we first saw Ansky light up in optical images, we triggered follow-up observations using ...