New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

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

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

Based on the new model, the first of these white dwarf explosions isn’t due for at least 10 1100 years. That’s a 1 followed by 1,100 zeros—a number so big that we don’t have a name for it ...

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

Citizen astronomers see moment star explodes by playing ‘spot the difference’ - A cataclysmic variable star was found as part ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

As per scientists, they think the universe is full of a variant of black holes, called primordial black holes, with some even thinking there could be as many as 1,000 moving through each square ...

Black holes are some of the most violent and destructive objects in the universe. And as terrifying as it sounds, thousands of these mysterious voids could be whizzing through your home at this ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the densest objects found within our universe. These cosmic objects are so heavy that they often weigh billions of times more than our sun, and they’re so ...