As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and ...

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

A neutron star and black hole (GW200105) were detected merging along an unusual oval orbit, challenging theories about how ...

A neutron star and black hole were detected merging along an unusual oval orbit, challenging long-held theories about how these systems form.

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent encounters. Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a black hole and a ...

For seven decades, every simulation produced the wrong answer, leaving physicists staring at tangled, chaotic fields while ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.

These are neutrinos, the "ghost particles" of astrophysics. Almost all of them pass through everything in their path without leaving a trace. But deep inside ...

An illustration of two stellar-mass black holes merging in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus. (Shu-Rui Zhang) ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Italy has discovered a potential link between gravitational waves and ...

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...