Black holes of all masses are somewhat mysterious. We know that massive stars can collapse and form stellar-mass black holes ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is defying conventional understanding. Growing ...

The phenomenon defies our current understanding of stellar evolution. The research was led ... In M31-2014-DS1's case, the neutrino shock wasn't revived and about 98% of its mass collapsed into a ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

This is not carelessness, but the possible discovery of a rare stellar event in the Andromeda galaxy. A red supergiant star ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

A star that winked out of view could be a “failed supernova,” a stellar explosion that petered out instead of fully detonating, a new study reports. If real, the failed supernova would mark the birth ...