Unfortunately, the "feasting diet" that one dead star ... white dwarf, designating it RX J0648.0–4418. RX J0648.0–4418 has a mass around 1.2 times the mass of the sun and is the fastest ...

Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, ...

"If future observations confirm this, the 4U 1820-30 neutron star would be one of the fastest-spinning objects ever observed in the ... of Sagittarius that includes a neutron star and a white dwarf ...

"Frame dragging is an effect present around all spinning black holes." The "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black hole has helped reveal the ...

or black hole—orbiting each other in a gravitational dance. In this case, however, the fast-spinning neutron star is accompanied by a white dwarf star about the same size as Earth. The white ...

A supermassive black hole located at the center of our galaxy is spinning so fast it is warping ... from gas or from the remnants released from a star exploding if it gets too close to the black ...

“In the study of radio emitting neutron stars we are used to extremes, but this discovery of a compact star spinning so slowly ... be something else such as a white dwarf with a strong magnetic ...

A dense, fast-spinning star known as a millisecond pulsar closely orbits one white dwarf star, as the pair treks around a second white dwarf. The three stars are crammed into a region of space ...

Unfortunately, the "feasting diet" that one dead star is engaged in signals its ... 1.2 times the mass of the sun and is the fastest-spinning white dwarf ever seen, rotating once every 13 seconds ...