Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised ... lurking in plain sight - hiding behind dust and gas rendering them invisible to normal telescopes.

This would explain why the flares are speeding up, as the white dwarf is getting closer to the black hole and moving faster. But it likely won't fall in. An artist's rendering of a white dwarf ...

Professor Poshak Gandhi, co-author of the study published in the Astrophysical Journal, said: “Black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe and are present everywhere – yet we still don ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Many more supermassive black holes could be hiding in the universe ... are lurking in plain sight – hiding behind dust and gas rendering them invisible to normal telescopes Professor Poshak ...

Many more supermassive black holes could be hiding in the universe ... are lurking in plain sight - hiding behind dust and gas rendering them invisible to normal telescopes.

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.