Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could be the culprit. A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light ...

"This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole," Megan Masterson, a physicist at MIT who co-led the research, said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

One supermassive black hole ... white dwarf is right at the turn around point, and we may see it get further away." The team plans to continue observing the system, with existing and future ...

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 ...

Between 2022 and 2024, astronomers detected rapid X-ray flashes originating from the black hole in which the brightness repeatedly rose and fell every few minutes. Astronomers theorize that a low-mass ...