The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

Black holes may form and grow quietly inside stars due to the accumulation of dark matter, potentially explaining the existence of near- and sub-solar-mass black holes. In white dwarfs, the ...

And, sometimes material falling into a black hole can "become rerouted" into two jets, ... "Maybe the jet somehow snowplows hydrogen fuel onto the white dwarfs, causing them to erupt more frequently." ...

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.

White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos, though not as dense as a black hole. Stars with up to eight times the mass of our sun appear destined to end up as a white dwarf.

If the hypothetical object orbiting the black hole were a white dwarf, the undead star would be in some sort of tidal limbo, where it would be “starting to get ripped apart a little bit,” she ...

Jan 17, 2025 09:00:00 Mystery of strangely glowing black holes may be linked to 'white dwarfs' The supermassive black hole ' 1ES 1927+654,' located 270 million light years from Earth, has been ...