In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

even as it sheds some of its matter while approaching the event horizon. When any object gets close to a supermassive black hole, they're typically ensnared in a powerful gravitational pull and ...

Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star orbiting perilously close to its event horizon.

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

The two are the only supermassive black holes that have been observed directly thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope. There is more to find out about both of them. "While our observations suggest ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively ... astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its ...

In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive ... to its event horizon, the boundary ...

A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas ... escape their vicinity behind a certain point—the black hole’s event horizon. But outside the event horizon, the black hole’s surrounding ...

Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a ... hole and getting precariously closer to its event horizon, the boundary beyond which nothing can escape ...