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

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

If the source of these strange episodes is a finely balanced white dwarf, the researchers theorize that it could be detected using ripples in space and time called gravitational waves emitted from ...

In 2009, the European Space Agency's orbiting X-ray telescope dubbed XMM-Newton discovered that the object is indeed a white dwarf, designating it RX J0648.0–4418. RX J0648.0–4418 has a mass ...

According to the calculations, the likely object was a white dwarf about 10 percent the mass of the Sun. It was moving about ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...

In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798/RX J0648.0–4418.

Australian scientists have identified a larger, venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, 'Big Boy.' Meanwhile, Loft ...

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope appear to show a white dwarf nearing the point of no return — called the event horizon — as it ...