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Small black holes near big black holes may tear apart and eat stars Small black holes hook up with stars near big black holes. It doesn’t end well for the stars. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
CHEOPS reveals WASP-103b: An egg-shaped planet that's definitely hard boiled WASP-103b is cooked and distorted by its host star. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
The newly formed Moon may have tidally heated the Earth The Moon was so close it would've loomed huge in the sky. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
Watch a black hole tear half a dozen stars to shreds Simulations show how stars can survive a black hole. By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
Astronomers get a front row seat to a star getting torn apart by a huge black hole By Phil Plait | 2 years ago
Titan has had *enough* of Saturn, leaving the planet 100X faster than expected By Phil Plait | 2 years ago
Is the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua a fragment of a shattered alien world? By Phil Plait | 2 years ago
Think time is too short now? 70 million years ago a day was only 23.5 hours long By Phil Plait | 2 years ago
