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How Do We Know Supermassive Black Holes Are Out There?

Mywish Anand 08/11/2018

'Normal-sized' black holes are known to be the remnants...

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The Star That Rose From the Dead

Sandhya Ramesh 25/04/2018

A star 500 million lightyears away appears to be...

Composite image showing the discovery of the most distant known star, Icarus. Credit: NASA/ESA/P Kelly(University of Minnesota)

Hubble Telescope Detects The Farthest Individual Star Ever

The Wire Staff 04/04/2018

A rare cosmic alignment led to the detection of...

An artist's impression of the star KSN 2011d going supernova. Credit: NASA Ames, STScI/G. Bacon

Amateur Astronomer Points His Camera at the Sky, Stumbles Onto a Supernova

Sandhya Ramesh 23/02/2018

When Victor Buso was photographing the night sky in...

'A movie camera to watch the whole universe'; an artist's conception of the LSST inside its dome. Credit: Wikimedia

High-Speed Astronomy Can Lay Bare the Mysteries of the Galactic Zoo

Christopher Kochanek 23/07/2017

Astronomers are eager to study supernovae, which have provided...

Hubble Revisits an Old Friend

Revisiting the Super-Bright Supernova 1987A After 30 Years

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/02/2017

It was so bright that it was visible to...

The supernova 2013fs located in a blue, star-forming area (the red point sources in the vicinity are foreground stars), which is apparently a part of one of the major arms of the spiral host NGC 7610. Caption and credit: doi:10.1038/nphys4025

Astronomers Catch Star Just Six Hours After it Goes Supernova

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/02/2017

They also found the dying star had begun to...