Scientists report a possible pulsar at the Milky Way’s center, discovered through radio observations by the Breakthrough Listen team using the Green Bank Telescope, offering a new laboratory for ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of ...

Astronomers suspect the heart of the Milky Way may be hiding a big secret: a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic, neutron ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense object with gravity so ​strong not ...

As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead quietly collapsed into a black hole.

Neutron star mergers are among the most extreme events in the Universe. A recent simulation shows that the cataclysm begins well in advance. Indeed, a chaotic ballet of their magnetic fields ...

Space is full of surprises, and in 2025, astronomers witnessed one of the most extraordinary events ever registered: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that lasted seven ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein and first detected by LIGO in 2015, confirming black hole ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Hypothetical dark matter stars known as ‘boson stars’ could leave telltale ripples across the cosmos, offering researchers a new way to probe the invisible forces shaping the universe.By Jonathan ...

If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...