Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

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 ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Astronomers have observed strange behaviors in a distant black hole. Plasma jets are moving fast, and X-ray flashes are ...

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. Astronomers developed this ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*, is about four times more massive than this one. White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

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

According to the research, the strange behavior of 1ES is caused by a 'white dwarf' that came very close to the black hole. A white dwarf is the remains of a dead star and is made up of matter ...