Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Black holes are thought to form from the violent explosion ... process of becoming a red giant—a phase that occurs at the end of a star's life. Based on this stellar transition, the team ...

Credit: SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with ...

In 2022 Oei and his fellow researchers uncovered another black-hole-spewing jet system that, end-to-end, spans 16 million light-years, or 100 Milky Ways. Porphyrion beats out this previous record ...

Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn’t lit the way to a new understanding of space-time ...

That a black hole appears to have a gravitational hold ... a phase occurring at the end of a star’s life. They believe that the outerstar is about 4 billion years old, based on this transition.

The black hole, V404 Cygni, was already known to be circled by a nearby star every 6.5 days. It is likely stripping this stellar companion of matter. (Image credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization ...