Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

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According to the team's modeling and calculations with the added pulsar data, the motions of the stars in the center of Omega ...

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Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Omega Centauri is a massive star cluster with ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral ...

That is, they appear black." Black holes come in a range of sizes. Stellar-mass black holes—typically a few to tens of times the mass of the sun—are formed when massive stars collapse after ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Could a decades-long debate about the ...

The new findings imply that, rather than a rare intermediate-mass black hole, there is a cluster of stellar-mass black holes in Omega Centauri, believed to be the remains of an ancient galaxy ...