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 ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

Research from Norway suggests supermassive black holes and their powerful winds might be the long-sought cosmic cause behind ...

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

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

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

Dense cosmic objects like neutron stars and white dwarfs may decay faster than previously thought, challenging predictions.

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." ...

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a ...

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