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 ...
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 ...
Check out the stars that made it to the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The film festival runs from June 5 to June 16. Melissa Etheridge performs onstage during the Paramount+ Melissa ...
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 ...
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, cosmic dust ...