There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

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 ...

Researchers have identified unique X-ray patterns from a white dwarf located near the black hole within a galaxy approximately 270 million light-years away from Earth. This discovery was facilitated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cassiopeia (pronounced kass ee oh pee' uh) the Queen is one of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize ...

24 on the preprint server arXiv, yield important insights into the properties of the system, proving that it contains a massive and fast-spinning white dwarf. HD 49798 is a bright blue star in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided a rare glimpse into the remnants of a centuries-old supernova in Cassiopeia A ... highlights how th... The white dwarf star RX J0648.0–4418, 1,700 ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf ...