"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

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Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black hole companion. The explosion, known as SN 2023zkd, not only produced a ...

A distant black hole has just put on one of the brightest and most violent shows in the known universe, tearing apart a ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S.

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided evidence of 'monster stars' in the early universe, explaining the existence of supermassive black holes ju ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

Long, long ago a cloud of stars circled a galaxy-size black hole, safely at a distance. Then about 200 million years ago one member of the cloud bumped another, a sun-size star, and sent it toward the ...

For the first time in the history of observations, astronomers have recorded the merger of three galaxies, each of which ...