Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

Chinese astronomers investigated the spectral and temporal properties of a black hole X-ray binary system known as SLX ...

Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically ...

The team, led by MIT astronomer Megan Masterson, suggests that these pulses may originate from a white dwarf star, a dense remnant of a dead star, that is perilously orbiting near the black hole's ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

While scientists think that most galaxies have a giant black hole at their centers, until now no one knew that one of these ...

(2025, February 19). 300 new intermediate-mass black holes plus 2500 new active black holes in dwarf galaxies discovered. ScienceDaily . Retrieved March 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com ...

This artist’s illustration depicts a dwarf galaxy that hosts an active galactic nucleus — an actively feeding black hole. In the background are many other dwarf galaxies hosting active black ...

de Martin (NSF NOIRLab) & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) Astronomers have uncovered a treasure trove of feeding black holes at the heart of dwarf galaxies — small, faint galaxies containing thousands ...

A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.

This artist’s illustration depicts a dwarf galaxy that hosts an active galactic nucleus — an actively feeding black hole. In the background are many other dwarf galaxies hosting active black holes, as ...

300 of these elusive black holes were recently observed by NSF NOIRLab’s DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument). While some are the active galactic nuclei of dwarf galaxies, most are ...