Massive stars create heavy elements from lighter ones through fusion, eventually forging an iron core over millions of years.

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Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

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Known for its large mass despite emitting very little light, Segue 1 is traditionally viewed as a prime candidate for studying dark matter-dominated galaxies. However, the unique investigation ...

Astronomers have discovered a new class of bright, long-lasting cosmic explosions that offer a new probe into studying the ...

Russian astronomers from the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) have analyzed long-term observational data of a peculiar ...

What began as a mathematical curiosity scorned by leading scientists has become the cornerstone of modern astrophysics, ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by Elias Most from Caltech, has modeled the milliseconds preceding the destruction of a neutron star by a black hole. Their work, published in The Astrophysical ...

A new astrophysical study reviews the quantum evaporation of stars and places the end of the universe much earlier than ...

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about ...