Michelle Starr

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion.When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the black hole’s gravitational field, releasing an enormous flar…

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than it was before.Astronomers have used the Hubble and Gaia telescopes to study the surroundings of SGR 0501+4516, a type of neutron…