"This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole," Megan Masterson, a physicist at MIT who co-led the research, said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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

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

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

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 ...

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

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

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team thinks that a dead stellar core, or white dwarf, daringly teetering on the edge of the black hole is the cause of increasingly frequent ...