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 ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...

Donald Trump's threats to cut funding towards research into black holes put any possible future discoveries "at risk," critics warn. It comes as key developments are happening within the field. For ...

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has completed the fourth observation campaign (called O4) of the ...

Today the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration announces the completion of the fourth observation campaign of the ...

The year 2015 was a landmark for the astrophysics community across the globe as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making ...

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a ...

A newly observed gravitational wave event from the collision of two massive, rapidly spinning black holes forces scientists to reconsider how these cosmic giants are born and grow.

A black hole illustration showing the extreme forces at play in deep space. Credit : buradaki, Shutterstock It’s not every day that something happening 1.3 billion light years away sends ripples that ...