In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole. Credit: Aurore Simonnet/ Sonoma State University. X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole have...
Concept art of two white dwarf stars with the same mass but different temperatures. The hotter star (left) is slightly puffier, while the cooler star (right) is more compact. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/ Johns Hopkins University. The telescope observations made of...