The cosmos may be speckled with black hole stars, celestial entities that have the properties of both black holes and stars. But only now have scientists discovered one for the first time, which could ...

Astronomers have found stars that repeatedly skim past supermassive black holes, surviving each encounter while producing a new burst of light. In some systems, those flares mysteriously fade with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: X Astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a "black hole star." According to ...

For four years, little red dots (LRDs) have been the hottest topic in astrophysics. Astronomers first noticed them in observations that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made in 2022. The LRDs ...

A black hole star, shown here in an artist's rendition, exhibits characteristics of both stars and black holes. Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT It’s time to cue up some Chris Cornell and get in the mood, ...

The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars, yet evidence for them is scarce. Now, ...

Powerful jets from supermassive black holes can disturb star-forming gas far beyond a galaxy’s visible edge, leaving a glowing trail hundreds of thousands of light-years long. By keeping this gas hot ...

Galaxies are enormous and hold hundreds of billions of stars. These stars form from cold, dense gas. Every large galaxy, ...

Black holes can suppress star formation, but nine nearby galaxies reveal how their outflows could also help trigger the birth ...