The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

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

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of a variable star designated Gaia22ayj.

The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding ...

The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...

Brown dwarfs blur the lines between stars and planets. Brown dwarfs are curious celestial bodies that appear to straddle the mass divide between stars and planets. Often referred to as "failed ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

It's the definition of "no pain, no gain." The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius.

The explosion T Corona Borealis is a phenomenon caused by two stars that orbit one another 3,000 light years away ...