A team of astronomers has traced one of the universe’s most powerful explosions—classified as a Fast X-ray Transient—back to a time when the cosmos was only 1.8 billion years old. The event, named ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today ...

Astronomers using AI have captured a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event: a massive star’s violent death triggered by its black ...

Scientists may have figured out what caused one of the strangest explosions ever observed in our universe: A massive star exploded while getting ripped apart by a black hole. Astronomers identified ...

Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called an "extremely ...

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

According to new findings published in Nature Astronomy, a new type of star explosion offers a new approach to exploring the ...

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth ...

The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light years away.

Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe in a galaxy cluster 390 million light years away. At the center of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, there is a supermassive black ...