Astronomers mapping interstellar dust in three dimensions have identified a giant spherical void in the Milky Way, roughly ...

That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...

The investigation could solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so large in the early universe.

Astronomers discover a star in Andromeda that may have collapsed into a black hole instead of exploding as a supernova.

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

Scientists have used a novel new approach to discover the potential origins of the sun goddess particle Amaterasu, the second ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense object with gravity so ​strong not ...

Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...

The event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly ...

Judge Dan Oakley, a dark skies expert and photographer, described the shot as "straight out of Star Trek". Other winners ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...

A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.