"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 ...

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

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.