"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

The quest to understand black holes has intrigued scientists and captivated the public imagination for decades. These enigmatic cosmic entities, with their mysterious centers, have long been shrouded ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

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

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...