Vanishing stars The discovery was made while observing a peculiar, far-away binary star system known as VFTS 243. This is not your typical system made of a star and some planets, nor your run-off ...
Over the years, astronomers have noticed stars suddenly winking out of sight without any explanation. In 2019, a project called the Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations ...
Stars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova first, a new study of a bizarre binary star system suggests. Researchers have occasionally ...
Astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen have studied a mysterious phenomenon: stars that suddenly disappear from the sky. One day, the Sun will begin to expand until it engulfs the Earth, ...
Around 30 years ago, researchers first discovered a group of around 100 stars, known as the S-cluster, orbiting extremely closely to the Milky Way's black hole heart, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* ...
For about 50 years, the scientific community has been grappling with a substantial problem: There isn’t enough visible matter in the universe. All the matter we can see — stars, planets ...
Cocoons of debris surrounding collapsing stars may generate gravitational waves detectable by LIGO. A team of astrophysicists has determined through simulations that the debris shed by dying stars ...
June 5, 2024 — Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate -- slower than any of the more than 3,000 ... June 5, 2024 — A rare ...
“Dancing With the Stars” alum Cheryl Burke has some explicit advice for newcomers to the dance floor. “Be single if you do ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ That’s all I’m saying,” the ...
Fifty-three years after a private plane carrying five men disappeared on a snowy Vermont night, experts believe they have found the wreckage of the long lost jet in Lake Champlain. The corporate ...
A female stingray that was discovered to be pregnant, despite not sharing space with a male stingray in at least eight years, has a reproductive disease according to the Aquarium and Shark Lab in ...
WNBA players will soon have another option for making money in the offseason. On Thursday, league All-Stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier announced their new 3-on-3 league, Unrivaled ...