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Astronomers have recently made a groundbreaking discovery, capturing the earliest observations of a supernova’s initial explosion. This observation has revealed a lopsided, asymmetric blast, ...

I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...

A new discovery about what happens when a supernova – an exploding star – and a black hole collide could change the way scientists understand the lives and deaths of stars. The finding was the first ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

The Zwicky Transient Facility, which scans the sky from the Palomar Observatory in Southern California, first detected the strange supernova in July 2023. Credit: Palomar Observatory / Caltech ...

Astronomers have been able to establish a direct link between supernovae and the formation of black holes and neutron stars, in one of the most intriguing cosmic events ever documented. This discovery ...

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For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image released on March 11, 2026. Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully/Handout via ...