Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

Scientists have detected the largest black hole collision ever observed, resulting in a colossal binary black hole 240 times ...

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

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, ...

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.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) achieved a historic milestone by making the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015. It originated from a black hole merger ...

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 ...