Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK via Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event, where a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has transformed directly into a black hole, without the usual supernova explosion. The phenomenon ...

Stars have a life and death-cycle. Those that are about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the ...

This is not carelessness, but the possible discovery of a rare stellar event in the Andromeda galaxy. A red supergiant star ...

A star that winked out of view could be a “failed supernova,” a stellar explosion that petered out instead of fully detonating, a new study reports. If real, the failed supernova would mark the birth ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

Wednesday, May 15, 2024: A new Hubble image highlights the intricacies of a distant galaxy ... of Andromeda are getting swept within. Inside the central region? A supermassive black hole lurks.

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...