Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Correspondent An artist’s concept of a white dwarf ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,937,751-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s ... 10 hours and seven minutes of white paint drying on a brick wall.

A white dwarf would also lose angular momentum through gravitational waves, but it also has an additional source of energy. By slowly losing its outermost material to the supermassive black hole ...

Now, researchers report that they have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of eating a white dwarf, the last stage of evolution for stars like our Sun – but the white dwarf is not giving ...