Scientists have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to better understand why some dead stellar remnants called white dwarf stars explode. These energetic explosions, called Type Ia supernovas, ...
Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...
If you ever wondered what would happen if you were to throw a black hole at a star, well astronomers now have an answer: it goes "boom" in a truly distinctive way. Researchers have spotted an ...
An illustration of SN2021yfj enveloped in a layer of heavy elements during its supernova explosion W. M. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko In September 2021, Steve Schulze, an astrophysicist at ...