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A messy black hole may have just triggered the largest explosion in the universeAstronomers have spotted a giant explosion releasing over 100 times more energy than the sun will release across its entire lifetime. A monster black hole is likely to blame.
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'Green Monster' supernova is the youngest in the Milky Way, James Webb telescope revealsNew James Webb Space Telescope images reveal the grisly past of Cassiopeia A, the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way.
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Extremely flat explosion dubbed 'the Cow' defies explanationA bizarre object called "the Cow" is the flattest explosion ever detected, and the first example of a rare phenomenon called a fast blue optical transient (FBOT).
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'Ghostly' neutrinos spotted inside the world's largest particle accelerator for the first timeSignatures of neutrinos, or ghostly particles that rarely interact with others, were tentatively spotted in the Large Hadron Collider in 2021. Now, physicists have confirmed they are real.
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James Webb Space Telescope captures star going supernova in a dazzling cloud of dustNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a picture of WR 124, a rare Wolf-Mayet star 30 times the size of our sun, ejecting a luminous cloud of cosmic dust.
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Ghostly scraps of oldest recorded supernova revealed in stunning telescope imageThe National Science Foundation zooms in on the tattered scraps of SN 185, which appeared over our planet 1,800 years ago and was the first supernova ever recorded in Earth's skies.
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'1-in-10-billion' star system is doomed to explode in a fiery kilonovaScientists have discovered an extremely rare star system that is doomed to explode in a 'kilonova' caused by the merger of two neutron stars.
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The brightest, most energetic explosions in the universe don't come from where we thoughtWhile tracking an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst to its origins, scientists uncovered a hidden explosion that could upend decades of research.
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Gamma-ray burst may represent the most powerful cosmic explosion ever recordedAstronomers stunned by 'brightest of all time' gamma-ray burst reckon it could be the most powerful space explosion since the Big Bang
