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

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

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

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

Scientists have made a terrifying discovery: two black holes are on a collision course, set to merge into a massive hole that’s more than 225 times the size of the sun. If that isn’t scary enough, ...

What would it sound like falling into a black hole? Or, more importantly, what would it feel like? Metacosmos by Anna Þorvaldsdóttir aims to answer these questions, using black holes as a metaphor for ...

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 ...

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.