New X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra telescope reveals Cassiopeia A’s chaotic final hours, showing how dying stars collapse and ...

Researchers, including a Rutgers astronomer, reveal new insights into a star's death in its final momentsA team of scientists, including Rutgers-New ...

A strange gamma ray burst has baffled scientists who do not know what it is. It is unlike anything they have ever recorded.

How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a once-in-a-decade occurence.

Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy as the Sun will in its 10 ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. For decades, physicists believed their explosive deaths ...

For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they ...

"The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of its imminent, violent end." ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

NGC 7456 may look like just another spiral galaxy, but it’s full of surprises. From vibrant star-forming regions glowing pink ...