Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

"This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole," Megan Masterson, a physicist at MIT who co-led the research, said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

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

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?

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team thinks that a dead stellar core, or white dwarf, daringly teetering on the edge of the black hole is the cause of increasingly frequent ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the verge of falling in ...

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.