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

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way on an ever-closing loop ...

More information: Jiwon Jesse Han et al, Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, The Astrophysical Journal (2025). On arXiv: DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00102 ...

Here are 8 incredibly beautiful and mesmerizing deep space images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the ...

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

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

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 ...

This result, extended by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking and others, underpins the idea that singularities—like the one at the Big Bang—are unavoidable. The idea helped win Penrose a share ...

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

Studying very luminous stars Previous studies used space- and ground-based telescopes to study these stars in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud for the first time. Several stars at ...