Astronomers have predicted that the dark nebula Barnard 68 will become a shining star in 200,000 years' time. According to the scientists, this nebula is already close to colliding with another, ...

Contrary to what your first instinct might tell you upon viewing this image, this is not a black hole. Not in the conventional sense anyway. It isn’t sucking in matter that comes too close to it.

The astrophysicist João Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Bürkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that "the ...