Theorists have long wondered how massive stars–up to 120 times the mass of the Sun–can form without blowing away the clouds of gas and dust that feed their growth. But the problem turns out to be less ...

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its ...

Massive stars much bigger than our sun always come in pairs or groups, not alone. But astronomers don't fully understand how these groupings form. In a new study, astronomers using ALMA have ...

A natural explanation is that, as the universe ages, the cold gas that fuels star birth is steadily consumed, inevitably driving a decline in star formation. If that were true, however, the drop in ...

UF researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture visually striking images of the W51 star-forming region. The telescope allowed them to see through dust clouds and observe atoms and ...

Our lives happen in the blink of an eye compared to the course of a star's lifetime. Now, a team of scientists have developed a realistic and colorfully stunning simulation of what just the beginning ...

A black hole is supposed to be the last word in stellar collapse: matter falls inward, spacetime caves in, and a singularity forms where the known laws of physics stop being useful. That picture has ...

The formation of the first, or Population III, stars marked a pivotal epoch in cosmic history. Emerging in dark matter minihalos at redshifts of around 20–30, these metal-free objects arose from the ...