"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.
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for 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 / ...
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 ...