From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...

In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers ...

Dubbed LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), it will see Teledyne Space Imaging working with Thales Alenia Space on optical electronics. It is led by the European Space Agency, in partnership ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive 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." ...

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...

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

The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

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 ...

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

International astronomers have discovered new features in a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 ...