Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*, is about four times more massive than this one. White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos ...
According to the calculations, the likely object was a white dwarf about 10 percent the mass of the Sun. It was moving about ...
A white dwarf would also lose angular momentum through gravitational waves, but it also has an additional source of energy. By slowly losing its outermost material to the supermassive black hole ...