Revealing how and when a black hole's mighty winds can squash star formation

Thanks to the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or XRISM, University of Michigan researchers are helping chip away at ...

Long gamma-ray bursts may trace collapsing stars rather than neutron-star mergers

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe, releasing more energy in just a few ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Astronomers Discovered a ‘Cosmic Fossil’ in the Making—the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy Seen Yet—by Peering Back to the Edge of Time

The James Webb Space Telescope observed 13-billion-year-old light, using a closer galactic cluster like a magnifying glass.
Science Daily

A dying star could create a new universe instead of a black hole

What if some black holes aren’t black holes at all? A new theoretical study suggests that when a massive star collapses, it ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Supercomputer models suggest magnetic fields explain how binary stars form so fast

Astrophysicist Tomoaki Matsumoto and collaborators have used three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic supercomputer simulations ...