After the storm in Sicily, mudslides rolled through the city of Messina and buried cars in the mud. Two waterspouts formed in ...

"This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole," Megan Masterson, a physicist at MIT who co-led the research, said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could be the culprit. A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into one is both interesting and terrifying. Now, a group of astronomers ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team thinks that a dead stellar core, or white dwarf, daringly teetering on the edge of the black hole is the cause of increasingly frequent ...

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 ...

In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black hole's corona—a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later. The brief though ...

In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black hole's corona -- a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma -- suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later. The brief though ...

The images show the Perseus Cluster and the Centaurus Cluster, each with a central black hole appearing as a bright white dot surrounded by patches and filaments of gas. In each image, a patch of ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent An artist’s concept of a white ...

Many mysteries in the universe still confound physicists and astronomers. The idea of white holes, which are hypothetical equivalents of black holes, is one of the most puzzling notions in ...

Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star orbiting perilously close to its event horizon.