21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... Universités, Paris have developed a model to simulate the formation of the first stars and to track the binary stellar evolution of the individual systems until these massive compact remnants merge as black hole binaries. As Pop III stars...
02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
... China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), spotted a stellar black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the Sun. ... our Galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution," said Prof. LIU. "We thought that very massive stars...
01 June 2020
Giant magnetic spots discovered on small super-hot stars
...astronomers have found that when observed in tightly packed stellar groups called globular clusters, the vast majority of ...planet. White dwarfs represent the most common endpoint of stellar evolution and more than 95 percent of all stars are expected...
02 May 2018
Astronomers spot fastest stars in the galaxy with Gaia
... dynamically driven double-degenerate double-detonation Type Ia supernovas (Ds x 6) – further high-resolution spectroscopy and detailed stellar evolution calculations will need to be performed. Further information on this research can be found here.
19 January 2016
Giant double-planet system around an evolved star detected by astronomers
... ageing stars that are of particular interest in terms of formation and evolution, as one day our Sun will evolve to be a red giant..., however, it could simply be a product of stellar evolution, whereby mass-loss from the evolving central star disrupts...
18 April 2018
Ambitious Galactic survey to help find Sun's lost family
An ambitious Galactic Archaeology survey, called GALAH, whose quest is to uncover the evolution of galaxies, has just revealed the ‘fingerprints’ of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which ...
