Astronomers capture first-ever image of two black holes orbiting each other
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two…
Black hole dances a star to death in gravity’s deadliest hook-up
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 — Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner.…
New type of supernova detected after star explosion
An artist’s conception shows a massive star being stretched by the gravitational forces of a nearby black hole…