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How do you weigh a star? Masses of RR Lyrae stars revealed through their pulsations
The distribution of known RR Lyrae stars in the sky, based on identifications from the European Gaia mission. The thick…
Gravitational waves show black holes prefer certain masses before they collide
Black holes have a preference for forming around two "universal" masses equivalent to about nine and 16 times the mass…
Survey of star masses in early universe analog shows distribution is not radically different from present day clusters
"Sh 2-209" is a rare and large-scale star-forming region in the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy. The image…
New study predicts the masses of the largest supermassive black holes in the universe
A supermassive black hole emits a jet of energetic particles in this illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Near the center of the…