"Since about half the stars in our galaxy are in binary systems where life might develop too ... When pulsars accrete too ...

There's evidence out there for the supernova model of black hole formation. This is when a dying star erupts in a colossal ...

They observed that the star’s remains began circling the ... Dewangan says monitoring such eruptions may help to identify a binary black hole — one small black hole orbiting a massive black ...

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event a billion light-years away: two supermassive black holes orbiting each other ...

The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega ...

"Overall, it's not surprising that black holes should be in triples, but what's surprising is that this system held onto the outer star after forming the black hole." ...

NASA's Swift Observatory revealed twin 'monster' black holes devouring a gas cloud in a distant galaxy, creating recurring ...

Using calculations of black hole formation, scientists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators have finally found the origin of those magnetic fields: the collapsing parent stars of the ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely heavy star is releasing bursts of material as powerful as repeating atomic ...