Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole ...
6 hours ago · The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5 per cent the distance that separates Earth from the sun, or a bit under 5 million miles (8 million km).
Intrepid White Dwarf Has Close Encounter With Massive Black Hole
2 days ago · The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5 percent the distance that separates Earth from the sun, or a bit under 5 million miles. They said its orbit is stabilizing perhaps because the outer layers of the white dwarf are being sucked into the black hole, providing a kick-back action preventing the ...
Black hole births jets, hosts white dwarf while astronomers watch
3 days ago · The supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy 1ES 1927+654, imagined here, hosts not only a newly birthed jet (upper right), but also possibly an orbiting white dwarf (lower right).
This Supermassive Black Hole May Harbor a Death-Defying White Dwarf
1 day ago · If the hypothetical object orbiting the black hole were a white dwarf, the undead star would be in some sort of tidal limbo, where it would be “starting to get ripped apart a little bit,” she ...
Astronomers may have an answer to strange flashes from black hole
3 days ago · Between 2022 and 2024, astronomers detected rapid X-ray flashes originating from the black hole in which the brightness repeatedly rose and fell every few minutes. Astronomers theorize that a...
'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a …
5 days ago · The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, located around 270 million light-years from Earth, with a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun. 1ES 1927+654 first announced its weirdness to ...
Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming …
3 days ago · The white dwarf could be shedding matter and triggering the pulses observed by the researchers. As it circles closer and closer to the black hole, they hypothesize, those pulses speed up.
Astronomers observe X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole …
5 days ago · While the black hole's gravity may pull the white dwarf inward, the star is also shedding part of its outer layer into the black hole. This shedding acts as a small kick-back, such that the white ...
Daredevil White Dwarf Star May Be the Nearest Object to a Strange Black ...
4 days ago · Astronomers Spot Fastest X-ray Flashes from Black Hole, Link to White Dwarf Star. This black hole, which is about one million times as massive as our sun, has been a source of interest since 2018.
How black holes bring white dwarfs back to life - EarthSky
Sep 8, 2018 · White dwarfs are the dead remnants of once larger, active stars like the sun, and sometimes, it seems, black holes can momentarily “bring them back to life.” Image via ESA.