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

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." ...

The one in the middle of the Milky Way ... Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they've never seen a pair of stars survive so close by.

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

Scientists want to know if a tidal disruption event that exploded twice is the result of a star abandoning its binary partner ...

In fact, they were seen inside the biggest cluster of stars in the Milky Way, and the sheer scale of it is enough to make our minds boggle. The black holes were found right in the middle of the ...

But it likely won't fall in. An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star. Credit: Aurore Simonnet / Sonoma ...

Nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its heart. The one in the middle of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star), is about 4 million times more ...

New York — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large galaxy has a ...