Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model for ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes.

The international team, known as the "black hole police," searched nearly 1,000 massive stars in the spectacular Tarantula Nebula (pictured) in the constellation of Dorado.

Very massive stars, over 100 times the mass of the sun, eject significant amounts of matter through powerful stellar winds before collapsing into black holes.

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

To find the black hole, which can’t be observed directly, the astronomers looked at 1,000 massive stars (each weighing at least eight times the mass of the sun) in the Tarantula Nebula region of ...

Astronomers have found a new kind of "quiet" black hole that gives off faint X-ray radiation and was ... About 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way in the Tarantula Nebula region of the ...

An artist’s impression showing what the binary star system VFTS 243 – containing a black hole and a large luminous star orbiting each other - might look like if we were observing it up close ...

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape.Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.

The black hole in VFTS 243 was found using six years of observations of the Tarantula Nebula by the Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph ([FLAMES] -- ) instrument on ESO's[ VLT] [3].

The first object is a very hot, blue star with 25 times the mass of the Sun, and the second is a black hole nine times more massive than the Sun. VFTS 243 is located in the Tarantula Nebula within ...