Because the jet is aimed almost directly toward Earth, its brightness is amplified “by a factor of 30 or more,” said co-author Jack Livingston. At the same time, perspective plays a trick on observers ...

The idea suggests that a parallel universe that mirrors our own could explain the existence of dark matter, one of the ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

Astronomers have measured the weight of a huge black hole — 36 billion times the mass of our sun, or six times the size of our entire solar system — in an old and dead galaxy near Earth. This cosmic ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...

Scientists may have figured out what caused one of the strangest explosions ever observed in our universe: A massive star ...

“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest evidence to date that such close interactions can actually detonate a star, ...

Another comparison; the Sun is 8.3 light-minutes away, meaning whenever we look at it (not that we should!), we're viewing it ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

A recent discovery by a team of astronomers centres on a galaxy cluster called CHIPS 1911+4455, located an incredible 6 ...