"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ... then this dead star is performing an incredible balancing act. "This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole," team ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

When supermassive stars reach the end of their lives and explode in a supernova, the remnants form a super-dense object called a ... ASKAP J1839-0756 might be a white dwarf, a smaller star like ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live ... This would cause the dead star to draw closer to the black hole, which would cause it to move faster, thus increasing the ...