Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

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

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

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...

Suppose the birth of the universe was not a definite start, but a cosmological rebound far within a black hole? This radical idea has been picking up steam as new theoretical research, spearheaded by ...

“We are not witnessing the birth of everything from nothing,” Gaztanaga writes. “But rather the continuation of a cosmic cycle.” And if he’s right, the Big Bang wasn’t our beginning.

Astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a population of tiny, energetic galaxies ...

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

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...