Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper ...

Exploding stars are one of the hazards life faces in the universe, but a nearby explosion could cause anything from a total calamity to a beautiful view, depending on the scale you’re using to define ...

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the mystery of dark matter could be wrapped up in 10 seconds.

Astrophysicists have also proposed looking for axions produced inside neutron stars immediately after a core-collapse supernova, like 1987A. Until now, they’ve primarily focused on detecting gamma ...

Neutrinos of different “flavor” quantum states (shown by colors) are entangled through interactions. In dense neutrino environments like core-collapse supernovae, this leads neutrinos of ...

"The collapse is so complete that no explosion occurs, nothing escapes and one wouldn't see any bright supernova," said researcher Alejandro Vigna-Gómez.

Their study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing evidence that massive stars can completely collapse and become black holes without a supernova explosion.