Astronomers detect X-ray pulse emanating from an area close to black hole’s ‘event horizon’0

• TECHNOLOGY
• February 8, 2019

Artist’s impression shows hot gas orbiting in a disk around a rapidly-spinning black hole. Image: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have detected X-ray pulses originating from an area very close to a black hole’s event horizon, and they believe the source of this pulse could be a white dwarf. On November