"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

The Milky Way has its own supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. How Big Is a Black Hole? Main sequence stars (like our Sun) make up about 90% of the stars in the sky.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

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

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

A black hole devours a star that has come too close. In very rare circumstances, ... DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2022. 10.1038/s41550-022-01820-x . Related Stories. Black ...

A supermassive black hole was observed belching up a star it gobbled up three years earlier — leaving astronomers puzzled by the delayed intergalactic indigestion.

The supermassive black hole, located 300 million light-years from Earth at the core of the galaxy ESO 583-G004, snared and shredded the star after it wandered too close, sending out a powerful ...

Astronomers have spied a "black widow" lurking in space 3,000 light-years from Earth, and it's a record-breaking cosmic object. Called a neutron star, the dense, collapsed remnants of a massive ...

The Black River Astronomical Society is one of the longest running astronomy clubs in the area with its founding in 1949. ... “At one of the public parks, a local astronomy club had a star party.