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Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold
Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver.
By Emily Conover | 1:02pm, May 08, 2019
kilonova over NYC
News | Astronomy
What a nearby kilonova would look like
By Lisa Grossman | 9:16am, May 08, 2019
News | Astronomy
LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves
By Lisa Grossman | 1:14pm, May 06, 2019
neutron star merging with black hole
News in Brief | Astronomy
LIGO and Virgo made 5 likely gravitational wave detections in a month
By Emily Conover | 1:41pm, May 02, 2019
exomoon
News | Astronomy
Skepticism grows over whether the first known exomoon exists
By Lisa Grossman | 12:30pm, April 30, 2019
galaxy M87
News | Astronomy
The M87 black hole image showed the best way to measure black hole masses
By Lisa Grossman | 6:00am, April 22, 2019
helium hyrdide ion
News | Astronomy
The first type of molecule to form in the universe has been seen in space
By Maria Temming | 1:00pm, April 17, 2019
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Context | Astronomy
Black hole image validates imagining the unimaginable
By Tom Siegfried | 6:00am, April 12, 2019
Kazunori Akiyama
The Science Life | Astronomy
Meet one of the first scientists to see the historic black hole image
By Emily Conover | 4:02pm, April 11, 2019
ALMA telescope
News | Astronomy
How scientists took the first picture of a black hole
By Maria Temming | 9:57am, April 10, 2019
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