Why the Sun Won’t Become a Black Hole
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a…
NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Its 1st Star-shredding Black Hole
For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Follow-up observations…