Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Credit LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) ...

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...