A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.

Stevenson 218 is the largest known star in the universe, located about 18,900 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum and far surpassing even the sun in size and brightness. So immense that it ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

Globular clusters are gravitationally bound, dense star collections containing tens of thousands to millions of stars, often located in galactic halos. Omega Centauri, the largest known globular ...