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

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...

India's INS Sindhurakshak, a Kilo-class submarine, met a tragic end in 2013 when a fire and explosion during weapon loading ...

But these two black holes, dubbed BH1 and BH2 ... if there were any scenarios at all wherein a massive star could end its life and become a supernova while a smaller companion remained intact.

One of the biggest and most fascinating mysteries of our universe is the question of what lies at the other end of black holes? As NASA explains, “These objects aren’t really holes. They’re huge ...

An X-ray binary system composed of a black hole and a star in the process of being consumed turns out to have a third member circling. Unless some unlikely scenarios occurred, the existence of ...

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 ...

Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic heavyweights famously destroy anything that wanders too close ...

To measure the masses and spins of black holes, scientists want to follow clues left behind by light that takes a round-a-bout journey, bends around these voids, and ultimately shines toward us.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a potential link between dark energy and black holes. A new study suggests that the increasing density of dark energy in the universe correlates with the growth of ...