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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Previous studies that didn’t factor Hawking radiation into their equations have put a white dwarf’s lifespan at 10¹¹⁰⁰ years.

In an idealized universe with no external interference, even the most stubborn stars, called white dwarfs, would vanish after ...