When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

A spinning neutron star orbits the remnants of a once-massive companion it has stripped to its core.

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

New data from space telescopes has been transformed into cosmic soundscapes, turning the mysterious activity around black ...

The terminal forecast, while gloomy, may help "unravel" the mysteries of a curious form of radiation, researchers said.