A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Long-term observations of WOH G64 -- once considered the most extreme red supergiant star in its galaxy -- reveal that the ...

Observations show that giant star WOH G64 rapidly changed temperature and identity, revealing massive stars evolving in real ...

Scientists have observed something strange about one of the largest stars known in the Universe, and they aren’t entirely sure about what it means. WOH G64, a star with a mass 28 times that of the sun ...

The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star — they are born brilliant, live fast and die young. If that is the case, the one named WOH G64 might be considered the stellar equivalent ...

After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of exploding in a powerful supernova, they report in a new study published in ...

Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows for sure — but if they can, a team of scientists argue they may have spotted evidence of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole, which ...

Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we’ve lacked a precise picture of what impact they have on their surroundings. A University of Chicago-led group ...

Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...