Our initial name ‘dark star’ is a misnomer,” Katherine Freese explained, highlighting the contradiction at the core of one of ...

West Cork locals are praising a good Samaritan for saving drivers from badly damaging their vehicles - or worse - by warning ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) are stellar explosions that occur in stars with initial masses around 8–10 times that of ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...

In a distant stretch of the universe, more than 10 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered something ...

The newly found object has an estimated mass about one million times that of the Sun. Its true identity remains uncertain: it ...