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 die, they explode in supernovas and leave behind dense, dead remnants of stars called neutron stars.
For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a gap that lies between neutron stars and...
LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object In ‘Mass Gap’
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