A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning ‘forbidden’ black holes that challenge physics ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

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

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...

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

Suddenly, two of these plastic hippos begin dancing around the board and smash into each other, forming one big and still ...

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