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

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

Astronomers have captured the moment a 'reborn' supermassive black hole awakened after 100 million years of silence.

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

A massive radio galaxy has produced one of the most striking depictions of "reborn" black hole activity, which is comparable ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.

Some discoveries emerge softly, with no explosions or satisfying conclusions. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, mysterious ...