Only one such event had been documented previously, a star recorded vanishing around 2010 in a galaxy 22 million light-years ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

Scientists have captured the moment a supergiant star collapses into a black hole, revealing the star's death in an incredible animation.

The world's largest neutrino detector has been successfully upgraded The new instruments will improve our understanding of how light emitted by ...

According to general relativity, gravity is the distortion of spacetime. Heavyweight cosmic entities like stars or galaxies ...

Merger of two neutron stars in the aftermath of a supernova may have been observed for the first time, though questions ...

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is surging on Apple TV’s Top 10 as Season 2 promises bigger Titans, deeper lore, and global chaos ...

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

A brief, high-energy signal recorded last year has become a focal point in astrophysics. The event, lasting ten seconds, came ...

Physicists think a 2023 particle detection marks the first exploding black hole seen. If true, it rewrites our understanding of dark matter.