Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged together.

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of Messier 96 captures a galaxy twisted by cosmic interactions. The new details reveal brilliant star-forming regions glowing in its outer edges. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F.

B ack in 2019, researchers observed a collision between two black holes of wildly different masses. New analysis has revealed that the collision produced a massive recoil, sending the newly formed ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

Two black holes merged together 2.4 billion light years away from Earth, and scientists have just figured out how fast the newborn ricocheted, and in which direction.

The distribution of matter in a nebula is not uniform; some areas are denser while others are thinner. Under the influence of ...

In a striking departure from traditional astronomical thought, scientists have recently proposed that black holes, long ...