About 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, a white dwarf is hungrily gobbling up matter from a nearby companion star. The volatile relationship results in incredible fusion-driven ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...

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

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star explodes twice in violently different ways. Their analysis of a series of ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...