Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

In a groundbreaking cosmic revelation, astronomers have captured the first visual evidence of a dying star erupting in a rare ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...

Suppose the birth of the universe was not a definite start, but a cosmological rebound far within a black hole? This radical idea has been picking up steam as new theoretical research, spearheaded by ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

As per a report from Space.com, researchers used sophisticated models and observations to learn that very massive stars give ...