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

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

Few things in space are as bright as a supernova, but recently astronomer captured a flash out in the cosmos so great their ...

Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical supernovae by orders of magnitude and stay bright for years. Triggered when ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.

They illuminate the processes responsible for growing the largest black holes in the universe," concluded Hinkle. Story Source: Materials provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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

The black hole, approximately nine times more massive than our sun, is currently drawing material from its closest companion star, which has 0.7 solar masses and orbits every 6-1/2 days at a ...