It is more massive than collapsed stars, known as "neutron stars", but has less mass than black holes. Such "black neutron stars" were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare ... so fast that it heats up and starts to glow, and the stars a black hole eats are glowing to begin with.

After years of effort, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced they managed to capture the first closeup image of a star beyond ... in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Astronomers have discovered the first binary stars orbiting a supermassive black hole. The stellar pairing in question orbits the cosmic titan at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*.

D9, as the newly discovered binary star is called, was detected just in time: it is estimated to be only 2.7 million years old, and the strong gravitational force of the nearby black hole will ...