But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Audrey Lang named an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for black ...

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

15 Giant Radio Galaxies discovered by ASKAP in the deep-sky Sculptor fi ASKAP J0107–2347 shows nested radio lobes hinting at black hole cycles Findings reshape understanding of AGN life cycles and ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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