Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Scientists detect powerful gravitational wave burst, GW231123, from black hole collision challenging theories on black hole ...

With a lineup that feels both algorithmically-tailored and cautious, this year’s edition of NOS Alive raises as many questions as it answers.

JWST finds a black hole between galaxy cores, not inside either nucleus Infinity Galaxy may contain a rare black hole from direct gas collapse Galaxy’s figure-eight shape suggests a head-on galactic c ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...