Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

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It's believed that a dead stellar remnant, or white dwarf, could be spinning precariously on the edge of the black hole, causing the explosions of high-energy light. “This would be the closest ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the ... though dramatic shut-off was a first in black hole astronomy. Members of the MIT team have now caught ...

A white dwarf would also lose angular momentum through gravitational waves, but it also has an additional source of energy. By slowly losing its outermost material to the supermassive black hole ...