By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...