Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
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Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White DwarfA supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy is once again surprising scientists. In 2018, a black hole called 1ES 1927+654, ...
A distant supermassive black hole, the mysterious 1ES 1927+654, emits X-ray pulses unlike anything previously recorded, which ...
International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...
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 ...
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From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...
Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.
Scientists may be able to confirm that this is indeed a white dwarf using next-generation observatories such as NASA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is designed to detect ...
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