McTier is a rarity in astronomy circles—a Black woman in a field estimated to be 90 percent white. In fact, a 2020 Forbes article reported that only about 2 percent of astronomers are Black.

The explosion leaves behind a naked stellar core called a white ... astronomy, we have found just a bare handful of candidate sky objects that might—maybe—prove to be the elusive middle-sized ...

“This new telescope has the potential to resolve the ëevent horizoní of a supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy or a nearby galaxy.” Nicholas White of the High-Energy Physics ...