This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...

When binary neutron stars or black holes swirl around each other, they constantly emit gravitational waves, which carry energy away from the system in the form of angular momentum.

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

The binary black holes are the closest together ever observed in multiple wavelengths. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF) These are hungry black holes as well, as both members of ...

Reviewed by Lexie CornerDec 18 2024. An international team of researchers has identified a binary star system orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky ...

Binary stars keep masquerading as black holes. What scientists thought was a star orbiting a black hole turned out to be two stars instead. Astronomers originally thought that the “Unicorn ...

Scientists have made a terrifying discovery: two black holes are on a collision course, set to merge into a massive hole that ...