Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

Black holes have always been considered mysteries in the world of research, with their composition, orbit and purpose largely ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

Two unusual gravitational-wave events, discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA colloboration, enhance our understanding of black ...