A new AI-powered framework could transform how astronomers measure the expansion of the Universe. By analyzing images of Type ...

That, at least, is what astronomers believe may have happened to a newly identified pair of stellar remnants. Using observations from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers suggest that ...

Two stars that once lived together in the Jellyfish Nebula may have also died together.

Dr. Shing-Chi Leung, assistant professor of physics at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, has published the article "Primordial Black Hole Triggered Type Ia Supernovae II: Comparison with Supernova Remnants ...

The left panel shows a hub-filament system observed in an actual star-forming region; the right shows the structure produced by this study's 3D simulation. Both show multiple elongated filaments of ...

About a billion light-years away, an extraordinary stellar explosion lit up in the night sky. The blast, detected December 12, 2024, was some 30 times the brightness of a typical supernova, putting it ...

Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that questions around its origin sowed confusion within the astrophysics ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not blurry clumps. The project combines artificial intelligence with leading ...

The open star cluster NGC 1755 resembles a pinch of salt strewn on a jet-black tablecloth in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA – CC BY 4.0 via Flickr. Researchers in ...

Scientists have gotten to the bottom of the mystery of an "impossible" merger between black holes that was detected via ripples in space-time called gravitational waves back in 2023. The collision ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful magnetic forces act on a collapsing, spinning star, they eject vast amounts of ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision. Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The enormous masses and extreme spins of the black holes ...