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

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

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

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

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

According to the research shared at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, the ...

Astronomers have observed strange behaviors in a distant black hole. Plasma jets are moving fast, and X-ray flashes are ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team thinks that a dead stellar core, or white dwarf, daringly teetering on the edge of the black hole is the cause of increasingly frequent ...