Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that ...

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

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 ...

In an extraordinary finding of stellar astrophysics, the LIGO (The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, which includes researchers from India, has ...

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 ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

In the vastness of space, few cosmic phenomena are as mysterious and fascinating as black holes. These invisible giants represent one of the most extreme environments in the universe, where gravity is ...

Thanks to its strategic waterfront location, the Baton Rouge area can claim the farthest inland deep-water port on the Mississippi. That means cargo from trucks, trains and barges can be loaded on ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, ...