"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the broadcast version of this interview, Robell Awake incorrectly said that the song "Stars ... to be Black. In fact, Black skilled artisans outnumbered white ...

Robell Awake is a chairmaker and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects." ...

The distant object, dubbed "1ES 1927+654" and ... An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star.

"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 ...

"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 ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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

If the hypothetical object orbiting the black hole were a white dwarf, the undead star would be in some sort of tidal limbo, where it would be “starting to get ripped apart a little bit,” she ...

the star is also shedding part of its outer layer into the black hole. This shedding acts as a small kick-back, such that the white dwarf -- an incredibly compact object itself -- can resist ...