Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner.

As the star is reeled ever closer to the black hole's maw, the black hole's tidal forces strip and stretch the star layer by layer; transforming it into a long, noodle-like string that gets ...

Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, ...

Very massive stars (VMSs), which typically have masses about 100 times that of our own sun, are critical components in our understanding of the formation of important astronomical structures like ...

It's shedding its dense, outer layer and triggering these pulses ... An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the ...

the outer layers rebound off the iron core, leading to a gigantic explosion called a supernova and leaving behind a black hole or a stellar husk known as a neutron star. But not all collapsing ...

As massive stars collapse into black holes, powerful jets tearing ... Each jet, Mumpower explains, punches through the outer layers of the dying star in its path, "like a freight train plowing ...