When two stars collide, their impact can give rise to a brilliant explosion known as a luminous red nova. To determine what stellar object remains after such a merger, astronomers used the James Webb ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a ...

A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the most luminous objects in its neighborhood, has quietly disappeared. Over the span of roughly eight years, the star dimmed by more than 10,000 times ...

This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. The most luminous object in the universe ever ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than ...

This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ...

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