In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

One way to make a black hole is to have a massive star collapse at the end of its life. Prof. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was the first to calculate that when a massive star burns up all its fuel, it ...

Taking a closer look at how plasma flowed at the surface of the sun, Burns and colleagues also found a surprising similarity to the immediate environments of black holes. A strange connection ...

Burroughs’s “cut-up” novels (another seminal influence). In Burns’s masterpiece “Black Hole” (2005), for instance, we never learn what’s causing the “teen plague” that has turned ...

The team, led by MIT astronomer Megan Masterson, suggests that these pulses may originate from a white dwarf star, a dense remnant of a dead star, that is perilously orbiting near the black hole's ...