Mysterious flashing seen near supermassive black hole. Astronomers have an idea what it is
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?
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Supermassive black hole births jets, hosts orbiting white dwarf, all while astronomers watch
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 ...
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Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole
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 ...
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Mysterious flashing seen near supermassive black hole. Astronomers have an idea what it is
“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 ...