New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

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

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

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

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

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

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

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A new kind of stellar explosion, far brighter and longer-lasting than supernovae, may help scientists explore the secrets of ...

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

Having a good phone app is a lot of fun and quite helpful in verifying stars, asterisms, and constellations. Most apps will ...