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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

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

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

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 ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

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

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

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