At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

Astrophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten ...

Something mysterious is happening out there — and it’s heading our way. Scientists have spotted strange space explosions ...

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each other, drawing ever closer until they ended in a cosmic collision that sent ripples through the fabric of spacetime. On September 14, ...

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