When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

"Frame dragging is an effect present around all spinning black holes." The "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black hole has helped reveal the ...

Measuring how a black hole is spinning, however, is more complex because ... which is the dense core remnant of another star. The stellar debris accumulates onto the white dwarf, creating a hotspot on ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly and altering space-time around it, a new study has found. Space-time is the four-dimensional continuum ...

Ages ago, in a galaxy some 300 million light years away, an unwitting star veered fatally ... about this enigmatic black hole, specifically, how rapidly it's spinning. They published the study ...

Unfortunately, the "feasting diet" that one dead star ... white dwarf, designating it RX J0648.0–4418. RX J0648.0–4418 has a mass around 1.2 times the mass of the sun and is the fastest ...

They believe the most likely culprit is a spinning white dwarf -- an extremely compact core of a dead star that is orbiting around the black hole and getting precariously closer to its event ...

On November 22, 2014, astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that lies 300 million light-years from Earth. That black hole had captured a passing star and was ...

Researchers have found that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, is spinning so rapidly that it is altering the fabric of space-time around it.