Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In May of 2019, a short-duration binary black hole (BBH) merger contained no evidence of the inspiral signal typical of these kinds of a ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar was a phenomenon in 2014. Set in the future, Earth has been struck by a global crop blight.

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes. Now, thanks to improved technology and a bit of luck, a ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...

Left panel: Frequency and decay time (half-life) of the different ringdown tones measured in GW250114. The black markers indicate the values predicted for a Kerr black hole. Right panel: gravitational ...

Two black holes in deep space. (The SXS [Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes] Project via LIGO/Caltech) (CN) — A merger of two black holes “ring” in the cosmos, producing ripples in the spacetime continuum, ...