Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

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 ...

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

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

A few, however, carry extreme energy: more than a million times what particle accelerators on Earth can produce. A new study suggests that those monsters are born in the churning magnetic fields of ...

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An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star is spaghettified and the remains form an accretion disk around the black hole. Typically, about half the star’s mass is drawn into ...

There are objects in our universe so dense that not even light escapes through them. These oddities, known as supermassive black holes, can weigh billions of times more than our sun. Scientists have ...