#University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy

Astronomers typically assume that large stars form black holes when they die, but this is not the only possible outcome.

At first, astronomers thought Asteroid Gault might be a new comet. Instead, it turned out to be an asteroid in the main belt that just developed a comet-like tail. Its newly found tails are the first evidence of any “misbehavior.”