The BOAT – or Brightest of All Time, a record that has yet to be beaten – was a gamma-ray burst accompanying a supernova ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

The most massive stars in the universe are destined to explode as brilliant supernova before collapsing into black holes. Yet ...

Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart ...

Astronomers have observed the most powerful black hole flare ever recorded, an event so intense it emitted the energy ...

It’s not often that a black hole outshines 10 trillion suns, but when it does, the universe notices-and so do the astronomers. The most luminous black hole flare ever recorded has burst from the ...

Gateway’s WA Great Western “nugget factory” kept on giving, with 328 new gold nuggets found across a 4km strike, cementing it ...

A mathematical investigation of galactic data suggests elusive dark matter is confined to the rules of gravity.

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

This black hole flare is fading, indicating that it is still consuming a star with an initial mass of 30 times that of the ...