A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

The curious minds at What If imagine the terrifying reality of falling into a black neutron star and what you would experience.

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Combined with the lack of detected light from the lens at late HST epochs, the BH nature of the lens is conclusively verified,” the scientists wrote in their landmark paper in The Astrophysical ...

The quasar’s radiation is stripping away gas in its companion galaxy, leaving behind clumps too compact to form new stars.

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...

Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as ...

As massive stars collapse into black holes, powerful jets tearing out from their hearts may "dissolve" the stars' outer layers, providing the ingredients to make heavy elements. This is the ...