Teams of astronomers at Meyer's university and many other institutions have been keeping an eye on the black hole ever since. The vigilance paid off when, in April 2023, a team at the university ...

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight rope around it. ... The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Astronomers found a black hole acting unusually in 2018. ... An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star.

A supermassive black hole with an exceptional 7-minute flash may have a “stellar companion.” Of three possible explanations, one is a white dwarf star caught in the black hole’s gravity.

White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos, though not as dense as a black hole. Stars with up to eight times the mass of our sun appear destined to end up as a white dwarf.

White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos, though not as dense as a black hole. Stars with up to eight times the mass of our sun appear destined to end up as a white dwarf.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The density of the white dwarf might give it an advantage, it is not easily disrupted by a black hole weighing about one million times the mass of the Sun. Still, the X-ray observations of the ...

Black Holes 'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a weird black hole. News. By Robert Lea published 13 January 2025 "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be ...

The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, located around 270 million light-years from Earth, with a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun. 1ES 1927+654 first announced its weirdness to ...