In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its mysterious behavior demonstrating another strange phenomenon. The Massachusetts ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

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 ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars ... star before ending its life as a red giant and eventually a white dwarf. In the model they consider, the star is initially part of a binary ...

Indian astronomers have performed X-ray observations of an X-ray binary designated 4U 1907+09. Results of the observational ...

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

They discovered a binary system containing an M dwarf star and a white dwarf, whose orbital period matches up with the period of the radio pulses. M dwarfs, also called red dwarfs, are low-mass ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...