Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Science An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole ... An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star.

the process which defines what a main sequence star is. Supermassive black holes, on the other hand, have masses equivalent to millions, or even billions, of suns crammed into a space no more than ...

There are more supermassive black holes than ... it back out into the galaxy. That can disperse gas clouds within the galaxy where stars are forming, slowing the rate of star formation.” ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?