Star Grinder Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up potentially tens of thousands of stellar-mass black holes, the husks of once massive stars, that are unfortunate enough to get too close. As detailed in a new paper to be published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, first spotted by Universe Today, astronomers suggest that B-type stars, which are only a few times the mass of the Sun, are being accelerated to a blistering 620 miles per second, and colliding with much heavier O-type stars, which tend to have a much […]