Astronomers captured the universe’s brightest, longest-lasting stellar explosions, where massive stars are torn apart by ...

Fascinating NASA Facts About Black Holes Black holes are often portrayed as cosmic monsters—mysterious voids that devour ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of Extreme Nuclear Transients, slow-motion cosmic blasts brighter than 100 supernovae caused by massive stars near black holes.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have developed an approach that could ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound ...

“In the universe, an absolute vacuum is rare, and most of the universe is very low-density high-temperature plasma,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “In principle, sound ...

NASA’s quantum computer research helps us learn more about space. Quantum algorithms can solve hard problems and help with ...

Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers saw the distant galactic ...

For the first time ever, scientists have found a lone black hole silently drifting through the Milky Way. It doesn't glow, it doesn't orbit a star—it just moves... invisible and unstoppable.

Researchers have finally confirmed that black holes spin. By watching the radio jet of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, researchers were able to watch it tilt, a movement ...