Could it be that the universe’s first structures were born not from enigmatic inflaton fields, but from the echoes of ancient ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

In the year of quantum, university’s faculty and students continue to innovate bold new work in quantum computing, ...

Recent observations of Jupiter's powerful magnetic field by NASA's Juno spacecraft have uncovered a never-before-documented ...

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

Scientists have developed a more precise method for analyzing gravitational waves, offering a sharper view into the ...

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further ...

As I start this blog radar is lit up with locally heavy rains and there’s been flooding towards north central MO from ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...

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