The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...
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 ...
An international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of a variable star designated Gaia22ayj.
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
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 ...
According to the calculations, the likely object was a white dwarf about 10 percent the mass of the Sun. It was moving about ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have ...
Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...