Many mysteries in the universe still confound physicists and astronomers. The idea of white holes, which are hypothetical equivalents of black holes, is one of the most puzzling notions in ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,941,015-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Hobby Tunneling What it’s about: An old-fashioned hole diggin’! By gar, it’s been a ...

"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 ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*, is about four times more massive than this one. White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos ...

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 ...

Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could be the culprit. A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light ...

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 ...

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 ...