Astronomers have announced the discovery of Extreme Nuclear Transients, slow-motion cosmic blasts brighter than 100 supernovae caused by massive stars near black holes.

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed 'extreme nuclear transients' (ENTs), that represent the ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen ...

The black holes sit in the centres of faraway galaxies. They stayed dark for years before tearing into massive stars. After ...

Deep in space, some of the universe’s most dramatic events unfold when two extreme objects—like a black hole and a neutron ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic ...

Read A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled ...

Was the Big Bang really the beginning of the universe, or are we 'bouncing' between periods of expansion and contraction? A ...

Scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter.

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...