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