Articles for tag: astronomy discoveries, Black Holes, cosmic phenomena, Galactic Nuclei, Space Explosions

This artist’s impression shows dust forming in the environment around a supernova explosion. VLT observations have shown that these cosmic dust factories make their grains in a two-stage process, starting soon after the explosion, but continuing long afterwards.

Brighter Than 100 Suns: Scientists Discover Record-Breaking Space Explosions

Suhail Ahmed

Among the most energetic events in the universe’s catalog of violent events since the Big Bang, astronomers have found a new extreme in the class of cosmic explosions. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients (ENTs), these rare, ultra-luminous events were seen in the centers of far-off galaxies where supermassive black holes split apart large stars in catastrophic ...