What happens if you throw a star at a black hole? Things get messy (video)
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A rare hypervelocity star may be able to escape the Milky Way
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A ‘failed star’ races through space at 1.2 million mph
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21 ‘one in a million’ giant dead stars have been found hiding around sun-like stars
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NASA’s X-ray telescope weighs ‘fast-spinning dead star closest to Earth’
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The Gaia space telescope helps astronomers image hidden objects around bright stars
Scientists have directly imaged eight faint stars that accompany very bright stars within the Gaia data catalogue, including so-called “failed stars”, known as brown dwarfs. …
Rocky, carbon-rich exoplanets are more likely to orbit tiny stars, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the richest hydrocarbon “menu” ever seen in a planet-forming disk. This observation, in which the protoplanetary …
The secrets of supernovae may be locked in lunar dust
The secrets of supernova star explosions may be hidden in the dust scattered across the moon – and a team of scientists from the China …
Are the stars disappearing into their own black holes? A strange binary system says ‘yes’
Scientists found strong evidence that some huge stars end with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into a black hole of their own making …
The role of appropriate nutrition in the management of AIDS and HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remain global health concerns, affecting millions of people worldwide. Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the main …