Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole ...
4 days ago · The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth from the sun, or a bit under 5 million miles (8 million km).
Black hole births jets, hosts white dwarf while astronomers watch
4 days ago · The supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy 1ES 1927+654, imagined here, hosts not only a newly birthed jet (upper right), but also possibly an orbiting white dwarf (lower …
'Daredevil' white dwarf star could be closest-known object to a …
6 days ago · The black hole in question is 1ES 1927+654, located around 270 million light-years from Earth, with a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun. 1ES 1927+654 first …
Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming …
4 days ago · The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Correspondent An artist’s concept …
Daredevil White Dwarf Star May Be the Nearest Object to a Strange Black ...
5 days ago · Astronomers Spot Fastest X-ray Flashes from Black Hole, Link to White Dwarf Star. This black hole, which is about one million times as massive as our sun, has been a source of …
White dwarf - Wikipedia
White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of stars whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star or black hole.
X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole accelerate ...
5 days ago · While the black hole's gravity may pull the white dwarf inward, the star is also shedding part of its outer layer into the black hole. This shedding acts as a small kick-back, …
White Dwarfs - Imagine the Universe!
Stars that have a lot of mass may end their lives as black holes or neutron stars. A low or medium mass star (with mass less than about 8 times the mass of our Sun) will become a white dwarf. …
How black holes bring white dwarfs back to life - EarthSky
Sep 8, 2018 · White dwarfs are the dead remnants of once larger, active stars like the sun, and sometimes, it seems, black holes can momentarily “bring them back to life.” Image via ESA.
How low-mass black holes are born from white dwarfs - Nature
Jul 24, 2024 · White dwarfs can transform into near- and sub-solar-mass rotating black holes 1. They can also transform into naked singularities or bare black holes that are not hidden. When...