Wednesday, Jan. 8 and 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app —Discover how scientists are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe— They are ...

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 ...

Black holes aren’t just cosmic monsters — they’re simply misunderstood. Black holes get a bad rap. They’ve been cast as the monsters of the cosmos — gobbling up stars and stretching anything that gets ...

Chung-Pei Ma is both a gifted violinist and one of the world’s foremost black hole hunters. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as ...

Double-star systems that sit near the center of Messier 87 are in the plasma jet splash zone, potentially making novae more likely. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger discovery. In November 2024, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories detected ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...