Astronomers have discovered the "missing link" connecting the death of sunlike stars to the birth of white dwarf stellar ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

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

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to the most extreme objects in the universe—neutron stars and black holes.

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

The Universe is a vast, twinkling enigma, teasing us with secrets that feel like they're just out of reach. Scientists at ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

Based on the new model, the first of these white dwarf explosions isn’t due for at least 10 1100 years. That’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros—a number so big that we don’t have a name for it ...