The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

The Milky Way is not just a band of stars stretching across the night sky; it's a massive, dynamic galaxy spanning over 200,000 light-years and containing hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and ...

Astronomers discover circular polarisation near massive protostar, offering insight into magnetic fields in star formation.

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

The biggest black hole merger yet observed could confirm a rare class of black holes long thought to be missing from the universe.

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...