A team of scientists has developed a new model for ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes.

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the bigger and closer of the two, and it’s not clear if it harbors a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If such an SMBH exists there, it must be quiescent ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way some 160,000 light-years away. New research points to it containing a supermassive black hole at its center. Credit: Marco Lorenzi ...

Astronomers Discover Evidence of a Stealthy Supermassive Black Hole Hiding Right ‘Under Our Noses’ The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest ...

A hidden black hole may exist in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Evidence has emerged through the discovery of hypervelocity stars at the edge of the Milky Way, ...