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

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

Astronomers found a massive black hole that spent ages in a "quiet" phase when everything around it in the early universe ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...

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 ...

The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now ...

Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star orbiting perilously close to its event horizon.

Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the universe. A ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered an unexpected reservoir of water circling a black hole in ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...