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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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, ...

The Gathering' is taking its next big risk: a full-on leap into science fiction. A certain Star franchise may have boldly ...

A recently discovered interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, could potentially be the oldest comet ever observed, predating our solar ...

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 ...

As per a report from Space.com, researchers used sophisticated models and observations to learn that very massive stars give ...