When stretching stars with black holes gets unstable
What happens when a star swings too close to a black hole?
A Proposed Moon Formation Theory: The Multiple-Impact Hypothesis
Could the Moon have formed from multiple impacts? Find out in today’s guest post by Jacob Azoulay.
Zombie Star Went Supernova Twice?
A strange supernova dubbed iPTF14hls has astronomers scratching their heads. This article presents one possible explanation — pulsations in a massive, dying star.
A Communicating Science workshop just for physical sciences grad students: ComSciCon-AIP
Graduate students: apply now for a workshop on science communication just for physical scientists from ComSciCon and AIP!
On the verge of revealing a singularity
How to determine how fast a black hole is spinning? Its X-ray outbursts will tell you!