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.

Citizen astronomers see moment star explodes by playing ‘spot the difference’ - A cataclysmic variable star was found as part ...

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

Each time the star plows through the disk and produces a QPE, it loses some orbital energy, causing it to spiral closer to the maw of the black hole. Assuming the star has the same mass as our sun ...

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 ...

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...

Astronomers detect 'nearby' black hole devouring a star The event was spotted in infrared data -- also a first -- suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.

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

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 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 ...

Star-size black hole is emitting radio signals that scientists can ... Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. who specializes in science, space, physics, astronomy, astrophysics ...