The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

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In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

Recent observations suggest that 'runaway' black holes are tumbling through the cosmos. Building on decades of theory, the discovery adds a remarkable new chapter to the story of the universe.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

UNRWA chief warns axing agency would create Iraq-style vacuum as US weighs future role amid funding freeze and Hamas ...

Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is weighing mass layoffs as it faces a deficit of nearly $200 million – driven by ...

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In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views ever of a massive star dying—not in a dramatic supernova explosion, but ...