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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A black hole discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the first ... the scientists probed 1,000 massive stars in the Tarantula Nebula region of the Large Magellanic Cloud to discover if ...

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 ...

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.

It's the first time a "dormant" black hole has been unambiguously detected outside the Milky Way, the researchers say. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at ...

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.