A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

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WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in ...

Earlier this year, a powerful gamma-ray burst traveled through space from a very distant source in the cosmos. The explosion was traced back to the early universe, just millions of years after the Big ...

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A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

It's never too late to solve a cold case. A new paper from Syracuse University researchers proposes an explanation for both a mysterious stellar object discovered in the year 2013 and an astronomical ...

TL;DR: Northwestern University astrophysicists have made a discovery that challenges current models of stellar evolution. Leading an international team, the researchers detected a previously unseen ...

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