Astronomers tracked a star that slowly faded instead of exploding. The quiet disappearance may reveal a hidden way black holes are born.

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and biggest stars in our night sky, has been acting strangely for years — suddenly dimming, ...

A brief, high-energy signal recorded last year has become a focal point in astrophysics. The event, lasting ten seconds, came ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Physicists think a 2023 particle detection marks the first exploding black hole seen. If true, it rewrites our understanding of dark matter.

Recently discovered invisible corridors, known as“interstellar tunnels,” have been found connecting regions of hot gas in our ...

A rare black hole explosion accounts for an “impossible” neutrino detection, say UMass Amherst scientists, possibly hinting ...

"If our hypothesized dark charge is true, then we believe there could be a significant population of primordial black holes, ...

"We studied the last several orbits before the merger, when the entwined magnetic fields undergo rapid and dramatic changes, ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...