It appears this white dwarf is not making a death plunge but rather has stabilized its orbit around the black hole ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

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

RX J0648.0–4418, spinning rapidly and shrinking, edges closer to a supernova due to mass accretion from its companion star.

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

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

MIT astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge.

The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...

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

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...