"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside stars, far removed from the calm conditions required for life itself. The ...

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the ...

The Hubble telescope shows stars exploding near a giant plasma beam shooting out from a black hole. The beam, named M87 jet, is 3,000 light years long and is moving through space at almost the speed ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever. Using the European Southern ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility has reached an incredible milestone: It has classified over 10,000 cosmic explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the feeding frenzies of vampire stellar ...

Dark matter, if it exists, is probably in the latter category. If hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are real, their collisions with regular matter may have left fossil traces ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Exploding white dwarfs observed by the Palomar 48 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory in ...