An artist's concept shows a stream of matter trailing a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole. Astronomers developed this scenario to explain the evolution of rapid X-ray oscillations detected by European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite.

📸 #Picstr Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University

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