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

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

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

Astronomers have identified a new kind of cosmic explosion extreme nuclear transients so powerful they outshine typical ...

Although ENTs are rare, occurring 10 million times less frequently than supernovae, continuous monitoring of the cosmos can provide new insights into these events that will revolutionize our ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

Sometimes a black hole is orbited by a neutron star—the dense corpse of a star also formed from a supernova explosion but which contains less mass than a black hole.

Each of the supermassive black holes the researchers described lies at the center of a distant galaxy. And each were observed to have suddenly brightened for several months after shredding up a ...