One significant area of research involves the charging of test masses used in gravitational wave detection missions, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Studies have shown that ...

Instruments designed for this purpose, like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), require highly sensitive test masses that can detect minute changes in gravitational forces. However ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

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 ...

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.

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

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

"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." Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have ...

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

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

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 ...