The crew decide it's time to increase Holly's IQ seeing as it is supposed to be about 6,000. While Kryten works out how to do it, the ship encounter a white hole. They need to ask Holly about it, but ...

Gravity then causes them to collapse and blow off their outer layers in a "red giant" stage ... as the white dwarf was drawn ever closer to the black hole and the size of its orbit diminished ...

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 ...

The white dwarf could be shedding matter and triggering the pulses observed by the researchers. As it circles closer and closer to the black hole, they hypothesize, those pulses speed up.

Gravity then causes them to collapse and blow off their outer layers in a "red giant" stage ... as the white dwarf was drawn ever closer to the black hole and the size of its orbit diminished ...

Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could be the culprit. A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light ...

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole already noted for its mysterious behavior demonstrating another strange phenomenon. The Massachusetts ...