Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes is traversing through the Milky Way within the star cluster known as Palomar 5. This extraordinary cluster,

Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of fuel and collapse under gravity. White dwarfs form from stars up to about eight times the mass of the Sun, and have an upper mass limit of about 1.4 times the Sun's mass.