They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

Indian astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system designated SXP 138. Results of the NuSTAR observations, published ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A team of researchers has engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the physics of black holes and their ...

Offers new possibilities to control light across the spectrum and insight into light–matter interactions. The device, reported in Advanced Photonics, functions as an optical black hole or optical ...

White dwarfs are dense, core remnants of stars that have shed their outer layers and cool over billions of years as they ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

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