"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

Kepler's supernova remnant is extremely exciting for astronomers – a rare example of a supernova for which we have a clear ...

What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, ...

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over ...

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When you imagine an explosion in space, a supernova is usually what first comes to mind. But astronomers are still quite ...