Scientists Intrigued by "Star Grinder" Pulverizing Entire Star Systems in Our Galaxy

Scientists Intrigued by "Star Grinder" Pulverizing Entire Star Systems in Our Galaxy

Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up potentially tens of thousands of star systems that are unfortunate enough to get too close. As detailed in a new paper to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and first spotted by Universe Today, astronomers in the Czech Republic and Germany suggest that B-type stars, which are only a few times the mass of the Sun, as well as mu…

A 'Star Grinder' Swarm of Black Holes Could Lurk in Our Galaxy's Dusty Core

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy is expected to end in four or five billion years, when astronomers predict it will collide with its neighbor, Andromeda. But new research suggests a different, more dramatic development: The Milky Way could be destroying itself from within, according to Popular Science.

The universe is large. Rather, huge. It is estimated that if we look in any direction, its most distant visible regions are about 46 billion light years away. That gives a diameter of 540 six trillion miles, an absurd figure of thinking and even difficult to write.With the numerous missions that have been made and the methods that continue to improve, we have managed to identify an endless number of objects. Galaxies, stars, planets, black holes…

A team of researchers has just found evidence of the presence of a large population of stellar black holes that would be found all around Sgr A* and that have the effect of destroying the big stars of its nearest neighborhood in a few million years. This explains why such stars are not seen in this area. They publish their study in Astronomy & Astrophysics. It is generally believed that the deepest parsec of the galactic center should house a po…

Black Holes at the Center of the Milky Way Are Destroying Stars at an Alarming Rate

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes is wreaking havoc, consuming stars and accelerating the cycle of star creation and destruction. A new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has proposed a mind-bending model that could explain the seemingly chaotic dynamics at the center of our galaxy—known as the Star Grinder. The study’s findings suggest that the de…