Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...

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

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

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

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

Kishalay De, an alumnus of St James’ School and currently at Columbia University, has helped solve the mystery, showing that ...

SN 2024abfl, a low-luminosity Type IIP supernova in the galaxy NGC 2146. This rare find is shedding new light on how stars ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - 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 ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...