A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process. Soon, ...

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights ...

A judge has ordered that the man held without bail and be given a mental-health evaluation after the May 27 incident at ...

It is near Abacoa Golf Club's third hole. The four golfers reported the firing of six to 10 shots shortly after 6 p.m., a Jupiter police ... Nobile, armed with a black handgun, entered his house ...

The supermassive black hole involved has a mass on the order of ... the disk and then expel a quantity of material equivalent to Jupiter's mass at velocities up to 15% of the speed of light.

A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions ...

Astronomers captured the universe’s brightest, longest-lasting stellar explosions, where massive stars are torn apart by ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.

Supermassive black holes might naturally replicate the colossal energies of man-made particle colliders possibly even revealing dark matter offering a cosmic shortcut to discoveries that would ...