The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

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

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

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 ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton ... The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth ...

Data from the NICER and XMM-Newton space telescopes showed the ... a beam of energy right at us If a white dwarf is at the root of the black hole's puzzling behavior, the system should be emitting ...

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

“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 ...

each with a central black hole appearing as a bright white dot surrounded by patches and filaments of gas. In each image, a patch of purple with neon pink veins floats in the blackness of space ...