Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

One of the black holes was about 103 times the mass of the sun. The other was about 137 times it. These large black holes may have been formed by even earlier mergers, Professor Mark Hannam, from ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

Caption: Astronomers have revealed the largest black hole merger to date. This illustration shows how the merger would appear to our eyes if we could somehow travel in a spaceship for a closer look.

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

A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra X-ray Telescop team takes you on a tour of the system. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

Scientists have revealed they’ve seen the cosmic equivalent of this – two black holes merging on the outskirts of our galaxy.

Merger creates black holes weighing 240 times the mass of our Sun — the heaviest binary black hole system confirmed through ...

This colossal collision, which occurred about 10 billion light-years from Earth, was detected in November 2023 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in ...

If black holes weren't terrifying enough, two especially large ones are merging together, experts have discovered.

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...