LISA will pick up the strong gravitational waves emitted by merging supermassive black holes in their final days. “With LISA we will actually see supermassive black holes merging,” Pacucci said. The ...

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the merger," according to ALMA scientists. The Atacama Large ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

For decades, though, a question has vexed astrophysicists: How can supermassive black holes get close enough to spiral together and coalesce? In calculations, when the converging holes reach the ...

Supermassive black holes are lighting up the cores of two merging galaxies in the early universe. Comments (2) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as ...

A spinning disk and a smartphone are all that are needed for students to study vibrations analogous to those produced by the ...

Black holes merging (IMAGE) Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Caption. This illustration shows a stage in the merger of two galaxies that forms a single galaxy with two centrally located ...

A detailed supercomputer simulation of merging neutron stars demonstrates that such collisions emit gravitational waves, rapidly form a black hole, and generate powerful jets likely responsible ...

If a binary black hole system caused the 2.2-year periodic variation in PG 1553+153, then we should also be able to see a longer pattern of variation, about every 10 to 20 years, when the clumps ...