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 ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

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

Since July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our cosmic understanding, delivering breathtaking images.

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

New findings about intermediate-mass black holes could shed light on some of the universe’s more mysterious components. In a recently published paper, a group of scientists have found new evidence of ...

There are objects in our universe so dense that not even light escapes through them. These oddities, known as supermassive black holes, can weigh billions of times more than our sun. Scientists have ...

Most galaxies around the size of the Milky Way or larger have a supermassive black hole skulking in their center. Each of these black holes can be millions or even billions of times more massive ...