Stars near the center of our galaxy could be forever fueled by dark matter, according to a team of astronomers who recently studied the distant light sources. Florida family sues NASA over home damaged by space debris The group of stars, known as S-cluster stars, are located just three light-years from the center of the … Read more
“All good things must come to an end.” That saying applies both in the cosmos and on Earth. We know that stars, like everything else, must die. When they run out of the fuel needed for nuclear fusion in their cores, stars of all sizes collapse under their own gravity and die, forming a dense … Read more
In our rapidly expanding universe, the lives of stars follow well-worn tracks, fusing hydrogen and then helium before growing in size until they exhaust their nuclear fuels and collapse, no longer able to resist gravity. But some stars in the innermost part of our Milky Way, very close to the galactic center, could chart their … Read more
A special cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the Milky Way could become “immortal” by continually capturing and destroying dark matter particles in their cores, a new study suggests. Researchers discovered this using computer simulations of stellar evolution dark matter particles captured by the gravity of these stars can often collide and … Read more