“All good things must come to an end.” That adage holds true in the cosmos as well as on Earth. We are aware that stars, like everything else, must die. When they run out of the fuel supply needed for nuclear fusion at their cores, stars of all sizes collapse under their own gravity, dying […]
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Something Strange Appears to Be Powering “Immortal” Stars at the Center of Our Galaxy
Eternal Flame The swirling vortex center of the Milky Way is a weird place, with a supermassive black hole that vacuums up interstellar matter and supernovae torpedoing hapless stars to the edges of our galaxy. Add another strange thing about our galaxy’s nucleus, according to new research: stars that stay young indefinitely by feeding off […]