Gravity can play a lot of tricks with light, and we're not just talking about black holes. Take this recent Hubble Space Telescope discovery from UC Berkeley's Patrick Kelly, for example: those ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

Armchair astronomers may catch a glimpse of an exploding star, better known as a supernova, just by looking at the big dipper. The star is about 21 million light years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy ...

Supernova remnants like W49B (shown in X-ray, radio and infrared light) ... For that, you need a really big laser, which can be found in only a few places in the world, ...

The last big bump before a supernova explodes Date: February 6, 2013 Source: DOE/National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Summary: Astronomers have found the first causal evidence that ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Ancient Supernova Ripple Discovered Near the Big Dipper Drop a stone in a pond and ripples spread into every widening circles. Blow up a star and its blast wave sweeps up and excites thinly strewn ...

Observations taken just hours after a supernova explosion help to illuminate the environment of the star just before its death. SNR E0519-69.0, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is a ...

Nugent and I had just started a “practice run” for a big supernova search we had been planning. Now he sent me a supernova with a weird spectrum. I had never seen its like before.

The big star that couldn't become a supernova One star's 'massive fail' could help solve a mystery Date: May 25, 2017 Source: Ohio State University ...