Now, researchers led by Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a bold new idea: that stars collapsing into black holes ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its ...

In this environment, Mumpower’s team suggest that energetic photons in a jet collide with protons to create a neutron and a ...

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to Earth! Now, new research from some of those same astronomers suggests ...

rather than the star coming to it, with disastrous results. This is a death plunge that occurs when the orbit of this alien world erodes over time. The end was quite dramatic, as evidenced by the ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept ... In the case of Ansky, however, there isn’t any evidence linking it to the death of a star. “The bursts of X-rays from Ansky are ten times longer ...