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 ...

Stellar black holes are born from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives, weighing from 3 to 50 times the mass of the Sun. When a star exhausts its fuel, it explodes in a supernova, ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

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 ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

Massive stars know how to go out in style. Some of the brightest, longest-lived flares probably come from megastars getting shredded by supermassive black holes, researchers report in the June 6 ...

The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story. Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could’ve come from a theoretical object known as a ...