“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as ...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is heading into a difficult autumn budget as economists make a common prediction ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the ...

If we do find a black hole that's close enough, the next challenge is getting there. For that, Bambi proposes the development ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...