Astronomers have measured the weight of a huge black hole — 36 billion times the mass of our sun, or six times the size of our entire solar system — in an old and dead galaxy near Earth. This cosmic ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest evidence to date that such close interactions can actually detonate a star, ...

Another comparison; the Sun is 8.3 light-minutes away, meaning whenever we look at it (not that we should!), we're viewing it ...

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The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

At 36 billion solar masses, the newly discovered black hole is so massive that it seems to break some theories of the ...

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