A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

Was the Big Bang really the beginning of the universe, or are we 'bouncing' between periods of expansion and contraction? A ...

As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to ...

Astronomers captured the universe’s brightest, longest-lasting stellar explosions, where massive stars are torn apart by ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of ...

Astronomers have observed the most massive and oldest black hole jet ever, emanating from quasar J1601+3102. Stretching over ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious and fascinating objects in the universe, known for their immense gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape. But among them, there are ...

Read A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled ...

A newly analyzed radio image reveals twin lobes stretching roughly 66,000 light-years on each side of a quasar called ...