A Death Star is born. As if regular old star-gobbling black holes weren’t terrifying enough, scientists discovered that certain types swivel around and shoot beams at various objects in the ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

Previous research also indicated that Earth looks down the axis of this system, known as Wolf-Rayet 104, raising concerns ...

A supernova is a cataclysmic stellar death that leaves behind a black hole or neutron star. It is the biggest, brightest, and most violent type of explosion scientists have observed in the universe.

The first hypothesis was a gamma-ray burst, which is triggered when a dying star transforms into a black hole or neutron star, a cataclysmic event that sends a considerable amount of energy into ...

A supermassive black hole with an exceptional 7-minute flash may have a “stellar companion.” Of three possible explanations, one is a white dwarf star caught in the black hole’s gravity.