Black hole or neutron star?

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 11:20 in Astronomy & Space

When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that are a bit less massive than this die, they explode and leave behind dense, dead remnants of stars called neutron stars. For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a gap in mass that lies between […]

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