Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that ...

U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally ...

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...