Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

A black dwarf should not be confused with a black hole or a neutron star, both of which have been observed. Additional resources: Learn more about the life cycle of stars from NASA's Imagine the ...

You see, the vast majority of stars — the other 99+% — don’t go supernova, but rather, at the end of their lives, contract (slowly) down into a white dwarf star.

The last ever black dwarf supernova will happen in around 10^32000 years. "If you wrote this number out, it won't fit in an article—it would fill a short book," he said.

The finding, published October 11 in The Astrophysical Journal, shows that winds of energetic gas and particles blasted out by supermassive black holes can stop star formation in dwarf galaxies.

If there was a dwarf galaxy ready to spill the secrets of its black hole to Earthlings, Henize 2-10 would be the one. Henize is a fortuitous choice for scientists to study because it’s close ...