A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

Astronomers have observed the dramatic demise of a massive star that chose the wrong cosmic partner—a black hole. The ...

The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an unusual environment, a supernova remnant tangled with dense material, or ...

The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby color.

Collisions between the stellar explosion and shells of material from earlier interactions located above and below the disk, ...

Not all supernovae go quietly into the cosmic night some fight to the very end. That is how Alexander Gagliano, the lead ...

A supernova likely triggered by the destructive pull of a nearby black hole has been observed by astronomers in a spectacular ...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have ...

With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as it was trying to gobble down a black hole.

After reviewing a massive stellar explosion, researchers believe they spotted a never-before-seen type of supernova that ...