‘Very massive stars’ or ‘very luminous stars’ may be emitting a significantly higher amount of material during their lifespan. A new study suggests that the immensity of these materials could be much higher than previously thought. Very luminous stars are those stars that have over 100 times the mass of the Sun. Despite having a […]
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Imagine a massive bell ringing somewhere across the cosmos — except the bell is two black holes crashing into each other, and the ringing is not sound, but ripples in space itself. These ripples, called gravitational waves, stretch and squeeze the very fabric of the universe. Predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 as a consequence […]
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In 1930, a young Indian physicist named Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar boarded a ship from India to England. Just 19 years old, he spent much of the long voyage working out the mathematics of what happens when a star collapses under its own gravity. What he found was shocking: stars above a certain mass couldn’t stop their […]
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