In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to Earth! Now, new research from some of those same astronomers suggests that ...

"This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole," team co-leader and MIT researcher Megan Masterson said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be ...

"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 ...

"This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole," says physicist Megan Masterson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

Now, we might finally have an explanation for at least some of its wild misbehavior: an orbiting white dwarf star veering precariously close to the brink of the black hole's event horizon, the point ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Those are the areas nearest the black hole where matter accumulates and heats up as it spirals in. Measuring that region is important since knowing the black hole's mass and its accretion disk's ...