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

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole ... white dwarf, the researchers theorize that it could be detected using ripples in space and time ...

By slowly losing its outermost material to the supermassive black hole in a process called mass transfer, a white dwarf could ... ESA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) launches in ...

white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later. The brief though dramatic shut-off was a first in black hole astronomy. Members of the MIT team have now caught the same ...

“This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live ... the team at MIT combed through observations of the black hole taken by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a space ...