A team of astronomers have studied two black holes that merged into a massive new one, confirming a 50-year-old theory that ...

An international team led by a researcher at the Chiba Institute of Technology has discovered an extremely rare phenomenon: a ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more than doubling the entire catalog built across the previous decade. The ...

Black hole GW190412 has been caught speeding away from its birth site at about 112,000 miles per hour (180,000 kilometers per ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that some quasars, which are regarded as some of the brightest objects in the universe, might actually conceal not one but two black holes locked in a ...

Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe's antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

RIT’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation researchers publish papers on new ways to identify supermassive ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...