Now, researchers report that they have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of eating a white dwarf, the last stage of evolution for stars like our Sun – but the white dwarf is not giving ...

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its mysterious ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

Black holes are just one of myriad marvels in outer space. In this feature, learn the difference between pulsars and quasars, antimatter and dark matter, brown dwarfs and white dwarfs, and many ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The black hole X-ray binary SLX 1746–331, located about 35,200 light years away, exhibited an unusual outburst in 2023 after 13 years of quiescence. During ...

those that have blown up and collapsed into black holes and neutron stars, or have withered into white dwarfs. Energy in this era is generated through proton decay and particle annihilation.

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for ...