Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

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

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole ... white dwarf, the researchers theorize that it could be detected using ripples in space and time ...

this white dwarf is right at the turn-around point, and we may see it get further away." Astronomers plan to keep their eye on this curious black hole, located in deep space some 270 million light ...

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton ... The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth ...

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton ... The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth ...

However, upcoming gravitational wave observatories like NASA's space-based detector LISA ... That is because as the black hole drags the white dwarf inward, the dead star is shedding material.