The universe’s hungriest black hole eats three suns per week
Scientists at the Australian National University have discovered the Universe’s fastest-growing black hole, a monster that gobbles up a mass the same size as Earth’s …
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This ‘singing’ space cloud is where stars and planets are born
Long before our Sun formed it was nothing more than a bunch of material floating listlessly in a large cloud of gas, dust, and debris. …
Early humans saw a rogue star pass close by our Solar System
These days we only really see stars in two contexts: our Sun, which is extremely close and holds us in its gravitational grip, and distant …
Astronomers struggle to explain ‘zombie star’ that keeps exploding but won’t die
We humans like to pretend we know a lot about space and the various objects that we’ve observed in it, but at the end of …
Watch a massive star die a fiery, explosive death
Of the many awe-inspiring sights in space, watching a star explode has to be one of the most impressive. When a large star meets the …
