Wednesday, Jan. 8 and 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app —Discover how scientists are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe— They are ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

Black holes aren’t just cosmic monsters — they’re simply misunderstood. Black holes get a bad rap. They’ve been cast as the monsters of the cosmos — gobbling up stars and stretching anything that gets ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

It’s nearly 10 billion light-years away, and you won’t see it in the night sky, but the explosive collision of two massive black holes detected in 2023 has created a third one, with 225 times the mass ...

Black holes can reshape entire galaxies, warp the fabric of space and time. Take a seat on the ultimate thrill ride to explore nature's strangest and most powerful objects. Black holes can reshape ...