While we might like the idea of an evergreen yard that remains vibrant and full of life all year long, many evergreen trees ...

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope appear to show a white dwarf nearing the point of no return - called the event horizon - as it orbits ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team thinks that a dead stellar core, or white dwarf, daringly teetering on the edge of the black hole is the cause of increasingly frequent ...

RX J0648.0–4418 is a shrinking white dwarf star spinning every 13 seconds The star gains mass from its companion, nearing the Chandrasekhar limit This binary system may witness a supernova explosion ...

Now, researchers report that they have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of eating a white dwarf, the last stage of evolution for stars like our Sun – but the white dwarf is not giving ...

An artist's concept shows a stream of matter trails a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole. — Reuters WASHINGTON ...

That’s why her team thinks the orbiter is a 0.1-solar-mass white dwarf — the superheated, compact remnant of a Sun-like star. A white dwarf would also lose angular momentum through ...

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The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi An artist’s concept of a white dwarf orbiting a ...

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