What lies between the stars?
Astronomers simulated the clouds of material between stars. They found that regions of space with more heavy elements tend to be cooler and…
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The fate of massive rotating stars
Researchers showed that massive stars at the end of their lives are more likely to collapse into black holes than to explode into…
Alien life could face threats from passing stars and supernovae
Astronomers examined 84 of the closest known stars with potentially habitable exoplanets and found that 3 face possible extinction-level…
How did supermassive black holes form?
An astronomer analyzed ancient supermassive black holes with mathematical models and found they likely grew exponentially after light,…
Searching for the first supernovae in the universe
Astronomers developed new theoretical models for how stars evolve that suggest the JWST could glimpse the oldest stars in the universe…