Astronomy on MSN4d
Supermassive black hole births jets, hosts orbiting white dwarf, all while astronomers watch
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
Space.com8d
'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a weird black hole
"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." Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have ...
Smithsonian Magazine7d
Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White Dwarf
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Correspondent An artist’s concept of a white dwarf ...