While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky ... physicists argue that close observations of merging black hole pairs may unveil information about potential new ...

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

"Our findings suggest that merging is an important route through which black holes can rapidly grow, even at cosmic dawn," says astronomer Hannah Übler of the University of Cambridge in the UK.

The detected wave forms from LIGO Hanford (orange) and LIGO Livingston (blue) are superimposed beneath illustrations of the merging black holes. Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes ...

The Space-based multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), a cutting-edge astronomical satellite jointly developed by Chinese ...

Since then, these colossal L-shaped detectors have “heard” dozens of cosmic collisions: black holes merging, neutron stars dancing toward annihilation. Currently, the U.S.-based LIGO detectors ...