It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and ...

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...

The detection of the gravitational waves from this event, which actually occurred billions of years ago, was made by the LVK ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...