A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

The matter from a captured star, for example, would be spread into a hot, bright, rapidly spinning disc called an accretion disc. Current thinking is that QPEs are caused by an object (that could ...

If an unlucky star swings too close, it gets torn apart. The star's shattered material becomes a stream that spins rapidly around the black hole, forming what is called an accretion disc that is ...

The star's shattered material becomes a stream that spins rapidly around the black hole, forming what is called an accretion disc that is gradually swallowed. But black holes can also go through ...