Kevin Costner was joined by three of his seven children as they attended the 40th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Friday.

Credit: Aurore Simonnet / Sonoma State University That's because the shredding of the white dwarf's material has a "kickback" effect, propelling it away from the black hole's event horizon.

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

The snow continues to be hit-or-miss, with eastern and northern areas of Western Washington seeing more white stuff than ...

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise disappearance, and now, a precarious spinning act. The black hole in ...

They believe the most likely culprit is a spinning white dwarf -- an ... that is orbiting around the black hole and getting precariously closer to its event horizon, the boundary beyond which ...

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole ... that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively ...

Before American Eagle Flight 5342 took to the air from Wichita, Kansas, Wednesday evening, on its way to the nation’s capital ...

Whatever was inside of 1ES 1927+654 — white dwarf or not — seemingly refused to cross the event horizon and enter the black hole. Masteron et al. then considered other potential sources for ...