"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." ...

In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers ...

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...

From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...

International astronomers have discovered new features in a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 ...

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

MIT astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge.

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

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

A distant supermassive black hole, the mysterious 1ES 1927+654, emits X-ray pulses unlike anything previously recorded, which ...

MIT astronomers report a supermassive black hole, 1ES 1927+654, displaying mysteriously accelerating x-ray flashes.