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 ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

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

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

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.