Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...

the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the French National Centre for Space Studies, marks a significant ...

White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used as nuclear fuel. Fusion in a star's core produces heat and outward pressure, but this pressure is kept in balance by ...

Such a burst flings star matter out into space but leaves behind the stellar core. While the star was alive, nuclear fusion created a constant outward push that balanced the inward pull of gravity ...