Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its mysterious behavior demonstrating another strange phenomenon. The Massachusetts ...

For astronomers, finding a new black hole orbiting an aged red dwarf star is an exciting find in itself, but when that black hole seems to be a "missing link" stellar-mass black hole, you can crank ...

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 was ...

An artist’s concept of a white dwarf orbiting a supermassive black hole and shedding matter NASA / Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy is once again ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from ...

In 2018, a distant black hole threw a fit. The 1.4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of the galaxy 1ES 1927+654 some 270 million light-years away suddenly began spewing radiation, flaring in ...

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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact stellar ember – that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...