"For the most part, massive stars make black holes. The more massive the star, the heavier the black hole," Fishbach said, until stars reach a certain mass threshold beyond which the physics of their ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most cataclysmic ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Gold was not born on our planet Earth; it was forged in a violent ‘cosmic forge’ far beyond our solar system. Research ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual ...

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Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...