Observational astronomy shows that newly discovered young stellar objects (YSOs) in the immediate vicinity of the ...
A simulation showed black holes with masses between 100 and 10,000 times that of the sun could be born through a chaotic ...
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into a black hole of their own making without the light and fury of a ...
From "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space is overrun with mysterious ...
Based on estimates of the black hole's mass, and that of the disrupted star, they were able to come up with an estimate for the black hole's spin -- less than 25 percent the speed of light.
Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of The University of Tokyo demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of ...
Distance: Roughly 1,560 light-years away, located in the constellation Ophiuchus. (For comparison, the nearest star to our Sun is only 4.24 light-years distant.) Detection Method: Gaia BH1 doesn't ...
(Nanowerk News) By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided the best modeling to ...
In the vast expanse of the universe, stars are born, live, and die in a cosmic dance that has captivated astronomers for centuries. While the life cycle of stars is well understood, there are still ...
Imagine an object with gravity so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape after falling in. Such a beast would be like an infinitely deep hole and utterly black. Someone should come up ...
A new study in Physical Review Letters explores the conditions of black hole formation from dying stars, particularly the role of neutrino-induced natal kicks in the formation process. Black holes ...
Tiny 'supercharged' black holes born just after the Big Bang may have been brief companions to primordial black holes, dying ...