February is Black History Month, and this year's this is "African Americans and Labor." Here are three books I recommend: 1. Robert Higgs, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy ...

Black History Month is starts this weekend, and as an avid reader, I'm thinking about books by Black authors that I'd love to revisit in celebration. While I love a good book club read ...

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 ...

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 ...

The subject is regularly left out in lessons learned by young students. To break this long-standing practice, teachers are using picture books to provide valuable lessons on Black historical figures ...

Sisterhood and secrets in Pages of the Sea Black Boys Like Me is a book by Matthew R. Morris. (Viking, Anthony Gebrehiwot) Black Boys Like Me is Matthew R. Morris' debut collection of eight ...

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. Astronomers developed this ...

White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos, though not as dense as a black hole. Stars with up to eight times the mass of our sun appear destined to end up as a white dwarf.

The white dwarf could be shedding matter and triggering the pulses observed by the researchers. As it circles closer and closer to the black hole, they hypothesize, those pulses speed up.