Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its mysterious behavior ...

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 ...

A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy is once again surprising scientists. In 2018, a black hole called 1ES 1927+654, ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

"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.

Scientists have observed X-rays emanating from a white dwarf orbiting a supermassive black hole in a galaxy near the Milky Way. The study notes the stability of the dwarf's orbit, despite its ...

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 ...