New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

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Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...

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New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

In particular, they top out at a relatively lower stellar mass compared to other similar-scale star-forming regions in the rest of the Galaxy and produce fewer massive stars.

However, these regions formed fewer stars—and topped out at a lower stellar mass—than the Galactic average. “These Galactic Center star-forming regions are in many ways very similar to the massive ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of ...