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

The bold question-askers at What If imagine the cosmic consequences of a collision between a black hole and a white hole.

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" ...

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

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

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

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

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

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

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