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 ...

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

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

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

An international team of astronomers has made groundbreaking observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR J0450.4−7050 in ...