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Beneath another blackboard filled with more equations is a clutter of memorabilia, including a vial containing some glossy black shards ... to directly capture images of giant exoplanets.

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 ...

White dwarfs are among the most compact objects in the cosmos, though not as dense as a black hole. Stars with up to eight times the mass of our sun appear destined to end up as a white dwarf.

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 ...

SEE ALSO: NASA scientist viewed first Voyager images. What he saw gave ... as the white dwarf is getting closer to the black hole and moving faster. But it likely won't fall in.

An artist's concept shows a stream of matter trails a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole. Astronomers developed this ...

Radio images show the ... pulsing is a white dwarf—a dense stellar remnant about the size of the Earth—that’s teetering precariously close to the black hole. The white dwarf could be ...