After a distant star's explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over several months—a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, a ...

Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics have proposed a new method to measure moderately saturated ...

An international team of astronomers has investigated a short-lived optical flare designated AT2022zod. As a result, they found evidence indicating that this flare is an unusual tidal disruption event ...

New Delhi: Indian astronomers have reported one of the strongest flares from a feeding super massive black hole or blazar called BL Lacertae, analysis of which can help trace the mass of the black ...