Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

Once again, gravitational waves have been observed whose origin should not actually exist: a collision of black holes with "forbidden" mass.

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...

Scientists have observed the largest black hole merger ever detected, marking a historic breakthrough in astrophysics. The ...

The black holes – one roughly 140 times the mass of the Sun and the other about 100 solar masses – fused into one pit of ...

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

Black holes are among the most enigmatic and fascinating objects in the universe. Their sheer existence challenges our understanding of the cosmos and raises deep questions about the nature of reality ...

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...