Astronomers have reported an unusually high-energy event that may represent a rare form of black hole feeding. The transient, ...

Black holes are one of the most devastating objects in space, sucking up everything around them. But there's another space ...

A burst of X-rays from 8 billion years ago may be the first clear evidence of a white dwarf torn apart by a black hole.

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if a white hole and black hole collided in space, revealing extreme gravity and unimaginable energy release.

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

On 2 July, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose brightness varied rapidly during a routine sky survey. Its unusual signal ...

Figure 1. Artist's impression of the Einstein Probe satellite catching an intermediate black hole, tearing apart a white dwarf, and producing a ...

Internationally-vetted data suggests we've witnessed a rare intermediate-mass black hole devouring a white dwarf along the outskirts of a distant galaxy.

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

There is a small white cottage with dark shutters and a red front door tucked off Main Street in Coventry. A navy-blue flag ...