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

The bold question-askers at What If explore why having a black hole in our Solar System would be a catastrophic scenario.

Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...

Researchers studying the Milky Way’s center have discovered unexpected cold hydrogen clouds nestled inside the Fermi bubbles, ...

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

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

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

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

This colossal collision, which occurred about 10 billion light-years from Earth, was detected in November 2023 by the Laser ...

How old is the universe? Learn more about the age of the Universe, from it's explosive beginnings to how we on Earth can ...

Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed ...