New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...

The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...

Scientists may have figured out what caused one of the strangest explosions ever observed in our universe: A massive star ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...

A recent discovery by a team of astronomers centres on a galaxy cluster called CHIPS 1911+4455, located an incredible 6 ...

Using AI, astronomers discover a new type of supernova, SN 2023zkd, the strongest evidence yet of a dying star being ...

In the more likely scenario, a star over 30 times the mass of our Sun was orbiting a stellar-size black hole. In the year before the explosion, the two became closer and closer, until the large star ...

Scientists propose a laser-driven nanocraft to reach a black hole in decades, testing relativity and probing extreme gravity.