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A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

Recently, astronomers spotted a supernova that was getting brighter after it had started fading away. The star that exploded was part of a binary system where the two stars orbited at a “medium” ...