Help! A star went missing. Who’s the culprit? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Black holes usually sit in the middle of galaxies, quietly waiting for stars to wander too close. But sometimes… they don’t stay put! Enter Yuhan Yao at University of California, Berkeley.
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For my next trick, I will make a STAR… DISAPPEAR?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. At the end of their lives, massive stars typically EXPLODE before forming black holes. BUT is that always the case? Enter Kishalay De [KEE-shih-lee DAY] and team at M-I-T.
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Astronomy? More like PASTA-nomy! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying… We are stardust – no, really! The elements in our bodies were created by supernovas — stars that exploded long ago. But now astronomers believe that some of those dying stars met a different
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