In this artist's rendering, a thick accretion disk has formed around a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star that wandered too close. Stellar debris has fallen toward ...

Computer simulation of the disruption of a star by a black hole shows the formation of an eccentric accretion disk of stellar material spiraling into the black hole. This image from a video of the ...

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 ...

"We were the first to image this elusive disk and study its rotation," says Elena Murchikova, a member in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and lead author ...

The computer code was used to create images of the movie’s wormhole and the black hole, Gargantua, and its glowing accretion disk, with unparalleled smoothness and clarity.

This helped to constrain the size of the accretion disk as the team could see the hydrogen line comes from a distance of 16.77 light-days from the central supermassive black hole, while the oxygen ...

An artist's rendering of the accretion disk around the supermassive black hole at the core of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser) ...

An image of Pōwehi, a supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87. ... As the accretion disc spins, tidal forces shred the stars and gas clouds caught within it down to their atoms.

The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, named Sagittarius A*, is a behemoth at 4 million solar masses. But while some black holes gobble the gas and dust around them, Sgr A* picks daintily.

For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed a young star outside the Milky Way galaxy that’s ringed by a dense disk where planets may form. The massive star, called HH 1177, and its rotating ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a mysterious thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of a magnificent spiral galaxy located ...

An accretion disk, as the name implies, is a disk-shaped gas that spirals inwards towards a central black hole. There is a great interest in studying the unique and extreme properties of black holes.