Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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

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

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

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...

Two massive black holes just collided in deep space, forming a single cosmic monster 225 times the mass of our Sun. This is ...

Collaboration has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed. The ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...