The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \(\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} Nebula \rightarrow protostar \rightarrow ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense ... In the stellar remnants of a supernova, however, there are no longer forces to oppose that gravity, so the star core begins to collapse ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University astronomer Danny Milisavljevic, who led the team behind the JWST images.

Turns out, it probably wasn't a supernova at all. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from News Fans of "Interstellar" take note: Astronomers might have just discovered a black hole similar to ...

Caption A supernova (bright spot at lower left) and its host galaxy (upper center), as they would appear if gravitationally lensed by an intervening black hole (center). The gravitational field of ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...