We all know that black holes gobble up anything and everything that passes through their event horizons. However, the exact ...

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

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 ...

Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

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

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

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

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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

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