A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of ... the team at MIT combed through observations of the black hole taken by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, a space ...

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 ...

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 ...