This is also unprecedented behavior for a black hole. If these weird episodes are the result of an orbiting white dwarf, a type of stellar remnant left behind when a star with around the mass of ...

But it likely won't fall in. An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star. Credit: Aurore Simonnet / Sonoma ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about ...

A supermassive black hole with an exceptional 7-minute flash may have a “stellar companion.” Of three possible explanations, one is a white dwarf star caught in the black hole’s gravity.

"They reabsorb some of their own radiation, which inhibits the process." If even white dwarf stars and black holes eventually dissolve into nothing, what does that say about us? Perhaps it suggests ...