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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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 explosions ...
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 ...