Across the sky, astronomers are stitching together vast samples of galaxies to understand how often supermassive black holes ...

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"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

A distant black hole has just put on one of the brightest and most violent shows in the known universe, tearing apart a ...

How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a once-in-a-decade occurence. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...