"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 ...

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.

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

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 ...