Two black holes merged together 2.4 billion light years away from Earth, and scientists have just figured out how fast the newborn ricocheted, and in which direction.

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

Physicists predict a 90 percent chance of witnessing a primordial black hole explosion this decade, testing Hawking’s most ...

Ten years ago this weekend, a team of Eastern Washington astronomers changed the way scientists study the universe.

Astronomers tracked the strangest gamma-ray burst yet. GRB 250702B is a repeating, day-long flash unlike anything seen before ...

Future gravitational wave observations will allow us to test more exotic scientific theories, and maybe even probe the ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser ...

New research suggests that if primordial black holes exist, there is a 90% chance our telescopes could detect one exploding ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured a solar-system-sized corona around a distant supermassive black hole, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

A decade after the pair of observatories first detected gravitational waves, researchers are drawing up ambitious plans for ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...