Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Two unusual gravitational-wave events, discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA colloboration, enhance our understanding of black ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two black holes rather than one. That theory, long ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

Lycoming College invites the Williamsport community and surrounding areas to enjoy a free show in its Detwiler Planetarium on ...

First-ever image of two black holes captured orbiting each other, confirming a decades-old theory using a powerful radio telescope.