A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe with an ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope of NASA will go into operation in 2027 and will detect exploding stars in the ancient ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have discovered direct evidence of a black hole birth in a recently-collided galaxy duo named 'Infinity'.

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

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

Two colossal black holes—among the most massive ever seen—collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled across the cosmos and shook the foundations of astrophysical theory.

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...