An international team led by Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light ...

Astronomers studied 1.3 million galaxies and 8,000 X-ray-spewing supermassive black holes to find out why these gravitational ...

The early universe is absolutely so far outside our understanding of how the world works it's hard to describe in words. Back ...

Black holes are mysterious objects, and one theory posits that our universe exists inside of one. It sounds strange, but ...

Supermassive blackholes are at the centre of almost every large galaxy, although scientists are still not sure how they ...

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon ...

An Australian-led study published in Nature found evidence of rare exploding stars called pair-instability supernovae, revealing a “forbidden gap” in black hole masses and offering new insights into h ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosive death of a star - is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant ...

A team of astronomers have studied two black holes that merged into a massive new one, confirming a 50-year-old theory that ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe's antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos ...