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Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

A new model sheds light on the long-standing chemical mysteries found in globular clusters, the ancient archives of the universe. An international collaboration led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, fr ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

Astronomers have captured the most powerful and farthest black hole flare ever recorded—a cosmic light show so bright it ...

Astrophysicist Pieter van Dokkum, a world-renowned expert in galaxy formation and evolution and a visionary in astronomical ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns ...

Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole — a fireworks show that was, at its peak, more than 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun — flared up as the ...

In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away.