"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 ...

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope appear to show a white dwarf nearing the point of no return - called the event horizon - as it orbits ...

Now, researchers report that they have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of eating a white dwarf, the last stage of evolution for stars like our Sun – but the white dwarf is not giving ...

An artist's concept shows a stream of matter trails a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole. — Reuters WASHINGTON ...

That’s why her team thinks the orbiter is a 0.1-solar-mass white dwarf — the superheated, compact remnant of a Sun-like star. A white dwarf would also lose angular momentum through ...

Disney’s upcoming new Snow White film has been making headlines before it’s even hit cinema screens - and not always in a good way. The fantasy musical starring Gal Gadot as the evil queen and ...

NSF / AUI / NSF NRAO / Meyer at al. 2025 The scientists say the most likely culprit behind the mysterious pulsing is a white dwarf—a dense stellar remnant about the size of the Earth—that’s ...

Discreet floodlights were on Wednesday evening turned on, illuminating the spectacular White Tower at Aħrax, Mellieħa, thanks to a generous donation from GasanMamo Insurance, DLH said Thursday.

And she found one promising candidate in another unexpected area: the physics of white dwarfs, which are compact stellar corpses left behind by dying sunlike stars. If the putative object were a ...

"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." SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images.

The aptly named Dwarf 3 will make you think again, with this compact smart telescope reduced to the size of an old-fashioned camcorder. Does reducing a telescope to such a portable size involve ...