Jan 14, 2025 · 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.

Jan 13, 2025 · 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 …

Jan 16, 2025 · 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 …

Jan 14, 2025 · The supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy 1ES 1927+654, imagined here, hosts not only a newly birthed jet (upper right), but also possibly an orbiting white dwarf …

Jan 14, 2025 · Between 2022 and 2024, astronomers detected rapid X-ray flashes originating from the black hole in which the brightness repeatedly rose and fell every few minutes. …

Jan 17, 2025 · 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 …

Jan 14, 2025 · The white dwarf could be shedding matter and triggering the pulses observed by the researchers. As it circles closer and closer to the black hole, they hypothesize, those …

Jan 21, 2025 · Whatever was inside of 1ES 1927+654 — white dwarf or not — seemingly refused to cross the event horizon and enter the black hole. Masteron et al. then considered other …

Jan 14, 2025 · Astronomers have discovered a white dwarf star balancing near a black hole's event horizon, offering new insights into black hole behavior.

Jan 13, 2025 · The white dwarf is practically at the precipice of no return and is estimated to be just a few million miles from the event horizon. However, the researchers predict that the star …