In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...