The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
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 ...
According to the calculations, the likely object was a white dwarf about 10 percent the mass of the Sun. It was moving about ...
C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in ...
MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
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 ...
Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...
In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...