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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 ...

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

Two black holes have collided on November 23, 2023, and it’s changing everything scientists thought they knew about the creation of them.

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 ...

The phenomenon is a key to galaxy formation. When galaxies collide, their central supermassive black holes often merge, ...