"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

For years, scientists have theorized that some black holes could actually be wormholes, and a new study shows that this space-time mimicry could in fact be possible.

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Very massive stars, over 100 times the mass of the sun, eject significant amounts of matter through powerful stellar winds before collapsing into black holes.

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...