Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable ...

According to a leading theory, black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, triggering an explosive ...

A watched pot never boils and love happens when you least expect it -- turns out, the same logic applies to capturing a star ...

"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the ...

On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose ...

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants ...

One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy has disappeared without the explosion astronomers expected. Instead, they ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

Scientists say an ultra-powerful neutrino once thought impossible may be explained by an exotic black hole model involving a so-called “dark charge.” ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...